GUADALUPE CORREA-CABRERA is an associate professor of public affairs and security studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the author of Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León and a frequent commentator in national and international news media on drug trafficking issues and drug violence in Mexico.

• List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I. The Zetas: Criminal Paramilitaries in a Transnational Business
  • Chapter 1. The Zetas’ Origins
  • Chapter 2. The Zetas’ War
  • Chapter 3. A Transnational Criminal Corporation
• Section II. Mexico’s Drug War: A Modern Civil War?
  • Chapter 4. Paramilitarization of Organized Crime and a “War on Drugs”
  • Chapter 5. The New Paramilitarism in Mexico
  • Chapter 6. Mexico’s Modern Civil War
• Section III. Los Zetas Incorporated
  • Chapter 7. The Zetas’ War and Mexico’s Energy Sector
  • Chapter 8. Energy and Security in Tamaulipas, Ground Zero for the Zetas
  • Chapter 9. Who Benefits from the Zetas’ War?
• Conclusion. Four Successful Business Models in an Era of Modern Civil Wars
• Appendix 1. Energy Reform and the Zetas’ Expansion (Timeline)
• Appendix 2. History of Organized Crime in Tamaulipas: Timeline of Key Events
• Appendix 3. Map of Criminal Paramilitaries and Natural Resources in Mexico
• Appendix 4. El disfraz de la guerra (The War’s Disguise): Communiqué by Residents of La Ribereña
• Appendix 5. Organizational Charts: Constellis Holdings, LLC, and Los Zetas Inc.
• Appendix 6. Areas of Dominant Influence of Major TCOs in Mexico, 2015
• Notes
• References
• Index