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The group's name Los Zetas is given after its first leader, Lieutenant Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Preventive Police radio code was "Z1",[9] a code given to high-ranking officers.[3][4][5] The radio code for Federal Police in México is "Y" and are nicknamed Yankees, for Military participating in drug raids the radio code was "Z," and thus they were nicknamed as the letter in Spanish, "Zetas."

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