Flavio Mendez Santiago, also known as 'El Amarillo' or 'The Yellow One,' was arrested along with a bodyguard

 Flavio Mendez Santiago, also known as 'El Amarillo' or 'The Yellow One,' was arrested along with a bodyguard outside Oaxaca City on Tuesday.

He was in charge of operations in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz, and controlled the smuggling of undocumented Central and South American migrants to the northern states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, on the border with Texas, Ramon Pequeno, the federal police anti-drug chief, said.

The Zetas are suspected of being involved in the disappearance of more than 40 Central American migrants in Oaxaca last month. The travellers were last seen on December 16 near the city of Ixtepec along the transit route for thousands who ride northbound goods trains.

The gang is also blamed for massacring 72 migrants in August in the northern state of Tamaulipas."

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