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Back in 1997, a man named Oiel Guillen took control of Mexico's Gulf Cartel

Cartel following the arrest of the organization's leader.

The power vacuum left behind by his predecessor's capture sparked a violent turf war, in which

rival cartels faced off against each other as the Mexican military tried in vain to keep the peace.

As the conflict raged on, the Gulf Cartel began to suffer heavy losses to both men and material,

and for a while they were dangerously close to being overwhelmed and annihilated.

But luckily, Ossiel Guienne had an ace up his sleeve, They were dangerously close to being overwhelmed and annihilated.

But luckily, Osiel Guienne had an ace up his sleeve,

and that ace was a man named Arturo Guzman Desena.

Decena was born into a poor working-class family in the Mexican city of Puebla on January 13th of 1976.

Like many of his peers, De Sene realized that his best chance of escaping economic hardship was to join the military. So on his 16th birthday, he volunteered to join the Mexican army.

De Sena proved a talented soldier, so talented in fact that he was chosen to undergo

selection for an elite group of airborne special forces, known as the Group Eremovol de

Fuercese Speciales, or GAFE for short. After joining the unit, De Sena received training in both

counterinsurgency tactics and the

interdiction of narco-traffickers and first saw action during the 1994 Chiapa surprising,

in which more than 30 rebels were either killed or captured by DeSana's squadron.

His unit received praise for their decisive victory over the rebels, but some noticed

an exceedingly chilling detail regarding the condition of the slain insurrectionists. Once they'd

been killed, and the shooting died down, the Saina and his men had apparently gathered up the

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