Violence in order to deal with violence, this concept may seem ludicrous, but in actuality it is used throughout the world. One of the hotspots for current day violence is in Mexico. With warning given every spring break to college students about kidnappings and innocent people being slaughtered on the street to notices given to families about leaving their cruise ship to tour the towns in Mexico and being harmed while on vacation. The majority of the violence is being sparked from the gangs and drug cartels in Mexico. It seems that the Mexican government has their hands full and need help in fighting the violence, which is where a new vigilante group called the Mata Zeta comes in to play. This group has a mission to help eliminate the Zeta, which is one of the most violent cartels in the Vera Cruz region. Mexico is getting a bad rap throughout the world due to the amount of violence being produced by their drug cartels. According to BBC, “The Mexican government last issued figures in 12 January 2011. Its database said 34,612 people had been killed since December 2006, including suspected drug gang members, members of the security forces and those considered innocent bystanders. It is now estimated that some 40,000 people have died during the nearly five years of Mr. Calderon's presidency.”(BBC)
An Al Jazeera article by Chris Arsenault Talks about the Mata Zetas or the “Zeta Killers” which are a sort of paramilitary group and their mission “to protect the people”. This group was dubbed the name because of the powerful gang known as Zeta. Arsenault continues in the article to state that the paramilitary group says, “They don't want to fight state security forces, they said, but called on "the functionaries and authorities who support the Zetas to stop doing so", in a digital communique read by men wearing balaclavas and toting machine guns.”We are anonymous warriors, faceless, but proudly Mexican."(Al Jazeera) This is an issue, because Arsenault in the article states that this could be some sort of front for the Mata Zetas and their actual agenda which is actually guns for hire by other cartels in order to eliminate opposing cartels and gangs. I totally agree with this assumption, because of the fact we do not know who works for whom. The Mata Zeta has remained quite anonymous, and elusive. With the group being so obscure it is extremely hard to find validity in their claims in whether their violence is to prevent cartels from terror or too be the muscle for some other cartel or gang..
