(SOA trained)Los Zetas Holds US Drug Business at Gunpoint http://www.tiwy.com/news.phtml?id=181

It is an open secret that today's world owes the spread of torture as an almost routine practice to the CIA, DEA, and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The Zetas surely learned the craft at the time when their careers were interwoven with those of professionals from the above services. The Zetas record can be traced back to the 1970ies-1990ies, the epoch of counter-insurgency in Mexico and Central America. US instructors trained a total of 15,000 Mexican special forces officers at Fort Bragg (North Carolina) and the School of the Americas (SOA) sited in the proximity of the Panama Canal, and later – when SOA closed – at Fort Benning (Georgia).