Economics

Zeta Gang Threatens Mexican Shale Gas

Drug war growing

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The brutal Zetas gang poses one of the most daunting challenges to the development of Mexico's abundant shale gas reserves near the Texas border.

The gas fields extend from the booming Eagle Ford play of South Texas deep into the ranch and coal country stretching inland from this violent border city. This is Zetas country, among the most fearsome of Mexico's criminal badlands.