Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is known as the “Kill friends”because?; this is the meaning of his nicknameas well as the victims of the former leader of the Gulf cartel and founder of Los Zetas.
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén was deported from the United States to Mexico today, Monday, December 16, as shared by the US authorities in various statements.
In the one shared by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service in Chicago they mention that Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is accused of homicide in Mexicofor the following victims.
Why do they call Osiel Cárdenas Guillén “Kill friends”? Meaning of his nickname
As his nickname says, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is known as “Kill friends” because he killed someone who was also the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Salvador Gómez Herrera.
According to newspaper reports, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén became the leader of the Gulf cartel in 1988. following the murder of Salvador Gómez Herrera, which is why he also became a creditor of his nickname “Kill friends””.
It is mentioned that Osiel Cárdenas Guillén killed Salvador Gómez Herrera with the help of a former military man, Arturo Guzmán Decena, to end the internal problems of the Gulf cartel that have been presented since 1996.
However, it is also noted that Salvador Gómez Herrera actually saw Osiel Cárdenas Guillén as a subordinate, since he delegated operations and commercial activities to him, while he had the control of the Gulf Cartel.
Initially, the Osiel Cárdenas Guillén’s nickname before being the “Kill friends” With the death of Salvador Gómez Herrera, he was “El Chaparrito”; Likewise, at that point and with the support of the murderer of the former leader, Arturo Guzmán, Los Zetas originated.
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén in January 2005 (darkroom)
Victims of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén “the Killer of friends”
Salvador Gomez Herrera is marked as the beginning of a career full of blood of Osiel Cárdenas GuillénAccording to various media outlets, however, his victims were several.
The exact number is not mentioned, however, the United States authorities presume that Osiel Cárdenas Guillén was a violent criminal boss who carried the Gulf Cartel with a fist of steel, as El País reports.
In this way, among the victims of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén against the Gulf Cartel they would find an agent of the DEAmurdered in 1999, as well as an FBI agent who was undercover.
But he also threatened a sheriff of Cameron County, Texashe pointed guns at two DEA agents in the United States and a third from the FBI, charges for which he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, which he completed in August 2024.
There are others indirect victims of Osiel Cárdenas Guillénlike Ciro Justo Hernández, alleged “snitch” of the Gulf Cartel who was murdered by his own brother, but not before seeing what he was like tortured by Los Zetas then.
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén’s Zetas (Social networks)