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Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, de 57 años, salió en agosto del Centro Penitenciario Terre Haute, en Indiana, donde purgaba la pena, pero fue trasladado al Centro de Detención de Otay Mesa.

Al devolver a este individuo peligroso a México, donde enfrenta cargos graves, hemos dado un paso significativo para proteger nuestras comunidades y mantener el estado de derecho", afirmó Samuel Olson, un directivo de la Oficina de Detención y Deportación de Chicago (ERO)

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Within moments, according to DuBois, a Lincoln Continental was on their tail, then a stolen pickup truck with Texan plates. He was one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, which was offering $2 million for his capture. After this, Osiel took control of the cartel in July 1999 after assassinating Salvador Gómez Herrera alias El Chava, co-leader of the Gulf Cartel and close friend of him, earning his name as the Mata Amigos (Friend Killer).

Cárdenas era and Los Zetas

In 1997 the Gulf Cartel began to recruit military personnel whom Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, an Army General of that time, had assigned as representatives from the PGR offices in certain states across Mexico.

The next in line was Sergio Gómez alias El Checo, however, his leadership was short lived when he was assassinated in April 1996 in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas. After Osiel Cárdenas took full control of the Gulf Cartel in 1999, he found himself in a no-holds-barred fight to keep his notorious organization and leadership untouched, and sought out members of the Mexican Army Special Forces to become the military armed-wing of the Gulf Cartel.

It was not clear why he did not serve his full sentence, but he had been extradited to the U.S. in January 2007. After his imprisonment a short time later, Jorge Madrazo Cuéllar created the National Public Security System (SNSP), to fight the drug cartels along the U.S-Mexico border. They committed acts of terror that regularly involved slaughtering dozens of people, decapitating them or dumping heaps of hacked-up bodies on roadways.

The Zetas lived on long after Cárdenas Guillén was captured in 2003.

They were enticed with salaries much higher than those of the Mexican Army. Once Osiel Cárdenas Guillen consolidated his position and supremacy, he expanded the responsibilities of Los Zetas, and as years passed, they became much more important for the Gulf Cartel. In exchange for a 25-year sentence, he agreed to collaborate with U.S. agents in intelligence information.

Their only way out was to talk their way out. All of the killers and accomplices were captured in that U.S. operation.

After a tense standoff, DuBois and Fuentes, along with their informant, were released. However, continual disagreement was leading the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas into an inevitable rupture.

In 2007, Osiel Cárdenas was extradited to the United States and charged with the involvement of conspiracies to traffic large amounts of marijuana and cocaine, violating the "continuing-criminal-enterprise statute" (also known as the "drug kingpin statute"), and for threatening two U.S.

federal officers. The standoff the two agents had with the drug lord in 1999 in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas led for the U.S. to indict Cárdenas and pressure the Mexican government to capture him. On May 1, 2008, while still in jail, Cárdenas threw a 'Day of the Child' party for 2,000 people in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, complete with banners, ponies, clowns, food and music.

The agents toughed it out and refused, reminding him it would be a bad decision to kill employees of the DEA. Cárdenas Guillén eventually called off his gunmen, but not before reportedly saying “You gringos, this is my territory.”

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Alanna Durkin Richer contributed from Washington, D.C.

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