MS-13 & Los Zetas: Perfect Together

Los Zetas, the paramilitary organization founded by former Mexican army soldiers which previously was providing enforcement muscle for the Gulf cartel, has asserted itself as an independent drug trafficking organization, and early reports are that it may be forming an alliance with the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang in El Salvador to move cocaine through Central America as reported by KGBT.  Leo Navarrete, the legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, confirms "that authorities are on the lookout for connections between gangs and big-time drug traffickers," and appropriately compares them to domestic terrorists as reported by Alex Renderos for the Los Angeles Times.