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195: Part 2 – Leo Silva – DEA vs Los Zetas: Inside the Mexican Cartel War

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Murph teams up with DEA veteran Leo Silva to expose the brutal rise of Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s most violent drug trafficking organizations. Leo shares gripping firsthand accounts from his time battling drug cartels in Mexico, detailing the horrifying realities of kidnappings, extortion, and mass disappearances. Discover how Los Zetas transformed the drug trade through unprecedented levels of violence and terror.

Murph and Leo dive into the origins of Los Zetas, their military background, and their shocking attacks on U.S. interests, including the U.S. Consulate. Learn how interagency cooperation evolved to combat these powerful and ruthless cartels.

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0:00.0

You make reference to a place called the House of Hell.

0:05.3

Yes.

0:06.0

Just give us the Reader's Digest version of that.

0:08.3

So what the SETA's did is they kidnapped citizens if they thought that there was a possibility that they would extract a large number of a large amount of money from their families for ransom.

0:20.3

So we interviewed a guy who was,

0:21.9

who had been a kidnapped victim and was held in one of these safe houses where at the time

0:26.5

at Kanikon, the guy who attacked a consulate, would keep several kidnapped victims in this house.

0:31.5

And he, if I remember correctly, he went in there into that house and he said there was like

0:35.4

20 other victims in that house. And they would all receive beatings with this.

0:38.8

It looks like an oar, but they designed it specifically for beatings and they cut holes into it,

0:44.4

bunch holes into it so it'll be more aerodynamic.

0:46.8

And they beat these people every single day so that their family members could hear

0:50.8

him going through the pain and say, pay the ransom or else, else you know we're going to eliminate your family member so hey gang welcome back to part two of episode 195 with my good friend Leo Silva.

1:16.6

I hope you listened to the first part yesterday because now we're going to get into the guts of this conversation to talk about a group called Los Zetas, the violence that's associated with them.

1:27.4

They brought violence in Mexico to a whole new level.

1:30.7

We also want to get into after that some of the things that Leo's doing after retirement

1:34.8

from DEA.

1:36.5

One of the things I want to point out to you is the book he's written.

1:39.1

I highly recommend this book.

1:40.4

It's called Rain of Terror.

1:41.9

You can get it on Amazon.

1:42.9

I read this thing in just a matter of

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