Los Zetas

criminal syndicate in México
Organization mexican_cartel Q248337
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Los Zetas was founded in 1997. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén founded it.

Its headquarters are in Mexico.

Los Zetas

Summary

Los Zetas is a Mexican cartel[1]. It draws 2,980 Wikipedia views per month (mexican_cartel category, ranking #3 of 19).[2]

Key Facts

  • Los Zetas is in the country of Mexico[3].
  • Los Zetas's instance of is recorded as Mexican cartel[4].
  • Los Zetas's founder is recorded as Osiel Cárdenas Guillén[5].
  • Z/z is named after Los Zetas[6].
  • Los Zetas's logo image is recorded as Escudo de los Zetas Vieja Guardia.png[7].
  • Los Zetas's headquarters location is recorded as Mexico[8].
  • Los Zetas's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 174365813[9].
  • Los Zetas's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2011055850[10].
  • Los Zetas's Commons category is recorded as Los Zetas Cartel[11].
  • +1997-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Los Zetas[12].
  • Los Zetas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07ts5k[13].
  • Los Zetas's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Los Zetas[14].
  • Los Zetas's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Los-Zetas[15].
  • Los Zetas's BBC Things ID is recorded as debcc805-78b1-4d86-a546-ceb3df5593ac[16].
  • Los Zetas's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-132822[17].
  • Los Zetas's Yle topic ID is recorded as 18-113854[18].
  • Los Zetas's Postimees topic ID is recorded as 770538[19].
  • Los Zetas's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/4c191753-3eec-4615-a426-8b0f42785826[20].

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Founding

Los Zetas's founder is recorded as Osiel Cárdenas Guillén[5]. +1997-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[12].

Operations

Los Zetas's headquarters location is recorded as Mexico[8].

Why It Matters

Los Zetas draws 2,980 Wikipedia views per month (mexican_cartel category, ranking #3 of 19).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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