Arturo Guzmán Decena (a.k.a. Z-1) (13 January 1976 − 21 November 2002) was a Mexican Army Special Forces soldier who in 1997 defected to the Gulf Cartel where he founded and commanded Los Zetas the mercenary gang at the service of the cartel’s drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.Guzmán Decena was born in a poor family in Puebla and joined the military as a teenager to escape from poverty.
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