How the Feds took down cartel's racing empire

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The others were former traffickers who'd worked the Zetas' supply chain between Piedras Negras and Dallas. They were all looking for a deal — a reduction of sentence, usually, though one trafficker, who admitted moving five tons of cocaine a year, avoided prosecution altogether.

Such a deal

Side note Zapata was not the first DEA agent to be killed in Mexico. Enrique Camarena was tortured and killed in, I think, '85 or '86.

Thanks for the heads up on the story.