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Bart,
The Zetas have long claimed they defected from the government b/c they were being used by corrupt government officials owned b other cartels as enforcers against the Gulf cartel. Getting paid a fraction of what the other cartels paid their soldiers and doing the same exact work. IDK about working with the DEA and such, but the idea that who ever is in power in Mexico is actually a figurehead for one cartel or the other(at all levels in government) is nothing surprising to anyone living here. "Plata or plumba" is a question they all get asked and the cartels aren't bluffing.
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