The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's
response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and
impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent
passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these
phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the
brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of
Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a drug
trafficking organization, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera builds a
convincing case that the Zetas and similar organizations
effectively constitute transnational corporations with business
practices that include the trafficking of crude oil, natural gas,
and gasoline; migrant and weapons smuggling; kidnapping for ransom;
and video and music piracy. Combining vivid interview commentary
with in-depth analysis of organized crime as a transnational and
corporate phenomenon, Los Zetas Inc. proposes a new theoretical
framework for understanding the emerging face, new structure, and
economic implications of organized crime in Mexico. Correa-Cabrera
delineates the Zetas establishment, structure, and forms of
operation, along with the reactions to this new model of
criminality by the state and other lawbreaking, foreign, and
corporate actors. Since the Zetas share some characteristics with
legal transnational businesses that operate in the energy and
private security industries, she also compares this criminal
corporation with ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and Blackwater (renamed
"Academi" and now a Constellis company). Asserting that the
elevated level of violence between the Zetas and the Mexican state
resembles a civil war, Correa-Cabrera identifies the beneficiaries
of this war, including arms-producing companies, the international
banking system, the US border economy, the US border
security/military-industrial complex, and corporate capital,
especially international oil and gas companies.
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