Coahuila state police guard a checkpoint in the city of Piedras Negras in September after a prison break staged by the Zetas cartel in the northern Mexican state. (Adriana Alvarado, Associated Press / September 18, 2012)
Retire in Mexico
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
November 3, 2012, 7:47 p.m.
SALTILLO, Mexico — Few outside Coahuila state noticed. Headlines were rare. But steadily, inexorably, Mexico's third-largest state slipped under the control of its deadliest drug cartel, the Zetas.
The aggressively expanding Zetas took advantage of three things in this state right across the border from Texas: rampant political corruption, an intimidated and silent public, and, if new statements by the former governor are to be believed, a complicit and profiting segment of the business elite. It took scarcely three years.
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