Los Zetas Inc. : : Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico / / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Correa-Cabrera, Guadalupe,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps, Tables, and Figures --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; SECTION I. The Zetas: Criminal Paramilitaries in a Transnational Business --; 1. The Zetas’ Origins --; 2. The Zetas’ War --; 3. A Transnational Criminal Corporation --; SECTION II. Mexico’s Drug War: A Modern Civil War? --; 4. Paramilitarization of Organized Crime and a “War on Drugs” --; 5. The New Paramilitarism in Mexico --; 6. Mexico’s Modern Civil War --; SECTION III. Los Zetas Incorporated --; 7. The Zetas’ War and Mexico’s Energy Sector --; 8. Energy and Security in Tamaulipas, Ground Zero for the Zetas --; 9. Who Benefi ts from the Zetas’ War? --; Conclusion. Four Successful Business Models in an Era of Modern Civil Wars --; Appendix 1. Energy Reform and the Zetas’ Expansion (Timeline) --; Appendix 2. History of Organized Crime in Tamaulipas: Timeline of Key Events --; Appendix 3. Map of Criminal Paramilitaries and Natural Resources in Mexico --; Appendix 4. El disfraz de la guerra (The War’s Disguise): Communiqué by Residents of La Ribereña --; Appendix 5. Organizational Charts: Constellis Holdings, LLC, and Los Zetas Inc. --; Appendix 6. Areas of Dominant Influence of Major TCOs in Mexico, 2015 --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477312766; 9783110745313
• DOI: 10.7560/312742
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera.

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.