Weekly Report - 19 October 2004

Los Zetas, the gang of former commandos turned narco hitmen, are well on their way to joining the pantheon of Mexico's legendary outlaws. As the government, after writing them off several times as 'decimated', is seen scrambling to rearrange prison security on warnings that Los Zetas might be planning another spectacular jailbreak, in northern Coahuila the media reports that they are being credited with - uncharacteristically - rescuing kidnap victims.