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He joined the Mexican Army as an infantry soldier in 1990, and ascended to the corporal unit five years later. By 1999, however, Gonz\u00e1lez Castro had resigned and began working for the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas along with several former military men.Considered one of the prolific assassins in his organization, Gonz\u00e1lez Castro commanded and successfully carried out a massive prison break of 25 inmates with other Army deserters in 2004. Gonz\u00e1lez Castro is among Mexico’s most-wanted men, and one of the last standing founders of Los Zetas.Table of ContentsCriminal career[edit]Status[edit]Kingpin Act sanction[edit]See also[edit]Sources[edit][edit]References[edit]Bibliography[edit]Criminal career[edit]Gustavo Gonz\u00e1lez Castro was born in the Mexican city of Tuxpan, Veracruz on 1 July 1973.[1] He joined the Mexican Air Force, a service branch of the Mexican Army, on 22 March 1990 as an infantry soldier. In 1995, he was the corporal unit, but resigned to enlist in the reserves on 1 August 1999.[2] At some point after leaving the Armed Forces, Gonz\u00e1lez Castro joined the criminal organization known as Los Zetas, which was formed by him and other ex-soldiers who were recruited by the Gulf Cartel under the tutelage of the then-leader Osiel C\u00e1rdenas Guill\u00e9n in the late 1990s.[3][4][5]In the early 2000s, Carlos Rosales Mendoza, the leader of La Familia drug cartel and close associate of C\u00e1rdenas Guill\u00e9n, was combating the Milenio Cartel for the control of the drug trafficking territories in the state of Michoac\u00e1n.[6] In an attempt to put down the Milenio organization, Rosales Mendoza contacted the Gulf Cartel and asked them to send several gunmen of Los Zetas to help in the fight. C\u00e1rdenas Guill\u00e9n agreed by sending Efra\u00edn Teodoro Torres and Gonz\u00e1lez Castro, two of its best hitmen. On 4 January 2004, the Gulf Cartel dispatched several members of Los Zetas, including Gonz\u00e1lez Castro, to perpetrate a larger prison escape in a municipal prison in Apatzing\u00e1n, a city just 200 miles from the nation’s capital. Armed with AK-47s and AR-15s and dressed in military uniform, the Zeta gunmen tied up the prison guards and liberated at least 25 inmates, including five high-ranking members of the Gulf Cartel.[8][9] The Mexican authorities believe that the imprisoned C\u00e1rdenas Guill\u00e9n had possibly ordered this raid in an attempt to predict the likelihood of his escape from La Palma prison.[A 1]Status[edit]In late January 2009, several homicides were reported in Guadalajara area, including the discovery of the alleged body of Gonz\u00e1lez Castro, alias El Er\u00f3tico.[5] The information was not confirmed, and Gonz\u00e1lez Castro remains a fugitive and in Mexico’s most-wanted list.[14] He is also one of the last standing founders of Los Zetas who are still at large.[16]In 2011 and 2012, Gonz\u00e1lez Castro was reported to have been commanding Los Zetas in Monterrey and Tamaulipas state respectively.[17][18]Kingpin Act sanction[edit]On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Gonz\u00e1lez Castro under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the “Kingpin Act”), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with fifty-three other international criminals and ten foreign entities.[19] The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.[20]See also[edit]Sources[edit][edit]References[edit]^ Code of Federal Regulations, Title 31, Money and Finance: Treasury, Pt. 500-End, Revised as of July 1, 2010. Government Printing Office. 28 September 2010. p.\u00a0674. ISBN\u00a0978-0160860034.^ “GUSTAVO GONZ\u00c1LEZ CASTRO” (in Spanish). Secretariat of National Defense (Mexico). August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.^ S\u00e1nchez, Alex (22 May 2007). “Mexico’s Drug War: A Society at Risk \u2013 Soldiers versus Narco-Soldiers”. Washington, D.C.: Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Archived from the original on 17 March 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.^ G\u00f3mez, Francisco (30 January 2011). “Los Zetas originales, diezmados en una d\u00e9cada”. El Universal (Mexico City) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2013.^ a b “Ejecutan a posible fundador de Zetas”. Milenio (in Spanish). 26 January 2009. Archived from the original on 7 February 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ Grayson, George W. (February 2009). “La Familia: Another Deadly Mexican Syndicate”. Foreign Policy Research Institute. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2012.^ Caballero, Eliseo (5 January 2004). “Se fugan 25 reos de penal de Michoac\u00e1n”. Esmas.com (in Spanish). Televisa. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ “Army deserters linked to prison raid”. Chicago Tribune. 7 January 2004. Archived from the original on 7 February 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ “Felicita DEA a M\u00e9xico por captura de Osiel C\u00e1rdenas”. Esmas.com (in Spanish). Televisa. 14 March 2003. Archived from the original on 2 February 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ Aponte, David (5 January 2005). “L\u00edderes narcos pactan en La Palma trasriego de droga”. El Universal (Mexico City) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ McKinley Jr., James C. (25 February 2010). “Mexican Drug Kingpin Sentenced to 25 Years in Secret Hearing”. New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ “LOS M\u00c1S BUSCADOS: GUSTAVO GONZ\u00c1LEZ CASTRO” (in Spanish). Mexico City: Attorney General of Mexico. Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ “Libres, \u00fanicamente 11 de 40 desertores que fundaron Los Zetas”. Milenio (in Spanish). 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2013.^ “#CasinoRoyale: Confirma Domene detenci\u00f3n de 2 presuntos implicados”. AnimalPol\u00edtico (in Spanish). 28 August 2011. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ Esquivel, J. Jes\u00fas (1 April 2012). “Un gobierno paralelo, el objetivo…” El Diario de Coahuila (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2013.^ “DESIGNATIONS PURSUANT TO THE FOREIGN NARCOTICS KINGPIN DESIGNATION ACT” (PDF). United States Department of the Treasury. 15 May 2014. p.\u00a011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.^ “An overview of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act” (PDF). United States Department of the Treasury. 2009. p.\u00a01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.Bibliography[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/gustavo-gonzalez-castro-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Gustavo Gonz\u00e1lez Castro – Wikipedia"}}]}]