Miguel Treviño Morales

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Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales (born 18 November 1970), commonly referred to by his alias Z-40, is a Mexican former drug lord and former leader of the criminal organization known as Los Zetas. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords until his arrest in July 2013. Born into a family with six brothers and six sisters, Treviño Morales began his criminal career as a teenager, working for Los Texas—a local gang from his hometown of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. His fluent English and experience of moving contraband along the U.S.–Mexico border enabled him to be recruited in the late 1990s by the drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, who headed the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Around 2005, he was appointed as the regional boss of the Gulf Cartel including Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo and was given the task to fight off the forces of the Sinaloa Cartel, which was attempting to take over the lucrative drug trafficking routes to the United States. After successfully securing these routes in Nuevo Laredo...

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