{"id":30049,"date":"2012-09-28T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=30049"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:39:01","slug":"el-taliban-is-gone-but-his-rival-mexican-drug-lord-is-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/el-taliban-is-gone-but-his-rival-mexican-drug-lord-is-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;El Taliban&#8217; Is Gone, But His Rival Mexican Drug Lord Is Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican marines just took down an infamous capo for Mexico\u2019s most brutal cartel. But they may have accidentally cleared the decks for an even more vicious one to take his place.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known by the alarming name \u201cEl Taliban\u201d \u2014 a likely reference to the way cartels glorify lopping off the heads of their enemies \u2014 was captured Wednesday in the city of San Luis Potosi\u00a0apparently\u00a0without firing a shot, according to Reuters. But \u201cEl Taliban\u201d was doing more than smuggling drugs and fighting the authorities.\u00a0He was waging a civil war within the Zetas and against Miguel \u201cZ-40? Trevino Morales, a\u00a0brutal assassin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/09\/el-taliban\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Danger+Room%29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b62a3034-30f4-460b-ad54-3ad07779d9b4\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican marines just took down an infamous capo for Mexico\u2019s most brutal cartel. But they may have accidentally cleared the decks for an even more vicious one to take his place. Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known by the alarming name \u201cEl Taliban\u201d \u2014 a likely reference to the way cartels glorify lopping off the heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[9045,222,737,6317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30052,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049\/revisions\/30052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}