MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government thought it had scored the biggest coup of President Felipe Calderon’s war on drugs when marines gunned down the founder and leader of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel in a firefight near the Texas border. But then they lost the body.
Embarrassingly, authorities still haven’t found the remains of Heriberto Lazcano, which were snatched from a funeral home and whisked away by gunmen in a hijacked hearse hours after the Zetas strongman died in a hail of gunfire in the town of Progreso in Coahuila state.
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