Published: 07:08 GMT, 7 August 2013 | Updated: 16:48 GMT, 7 August 2013. Despite Reta's youth, "he's a cold-blooded killer," Guillen said. If eyes are a window into the soul then unraveling the myth of Gabriel Cardona gets complicated. (Prosecutors say during his trial Reta used make-up to cover the facial markings.) Assistant District Attorney Jesse Guillen said the trial in the second case against Reta would likely start soon and would give authorities another chance to add time to the teen's prison sentence. "My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." The cases against Cardona and Reta -- both are in prison serving long prison sentences for murder -- shed new light into the workings of the drug cartels. And Cardona responds, "I've heard in Dallas and Houston.". An El Paso man convicted of killing 17 people, who later became a motivational speaker, was killed by his cellmate in a Chihuahua prison, authorities announced Sunday. Reta was trained in a secret camp where he learned how to be a sicario, a hitman. He is also accused of being involved in the murder of US Consulate staffers killed in Ciudad Juarez in 2010. Alleged member of the gang Los Aztecas, Chavez Castillo has admitted to over 800 murders, sometimes beheading and dismembering them. Inside the United States, one of the instruments of assassination Los Zetas unleashed was teenager Rosalio Reta. It gives you that sense that you could do anything without being touched and having that sense of power, Cardona said. Cardona smiled when asked how many people he remembers killing for the Zetas. 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Humans could have wings, tentacles or an extra ARM 'in the next few decades' thanks to leaps in human DIY fruit and veg! After that, I didnt have no life.. In a particularly nightmarish anecdote, Reta describes how Trevio tortured two brothers and finally forced one to kill the other, promising to release the killerwhom he in turn killed anyway. Investigators say Reta and another American recruit were paid $500 a week on retainer to sit and wait for a call to kill. As a 13-year-old, Reta was at school. Before that, he was a bodyguard and hitman for the leader of the Gulf cartel.He was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to 35 years in prison. They were raised in poverty and with the many problems inherent to poverty. The teen was arrested in 2010, and told authorities he killed four males by slitting their throat, and was paid weekly in pesos and dollars. Prosecutors say they quickly discovered these two teenagers were homegrown assassins, hired to carry out the dirty work of the notorious Gulf Cartel. Given six months of military training in Mexico, he was sent across the border. This Record may not reflect actual, complete, or up-to-date data. 'It just happened,' he said, showing off the tattoos he had inked on his eyelids in prison, Teen killers: When this photo of Reta (center) and Cardona (right) was taken, they were well into their bloody careers. 04-07-00564-CR (Tex. 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Detective Roberto Garcia of the Laredo Police Department told the New York Times, 'The cartels - they just seduce you. "There's no doubt about it.". Reta killed his first victim at 13 years old, when a drug lord handed him a gun and commanded him to shoot another man. The third was arrested by Mexican authorities and stabbed to death in prison there three days later. The former editor of the Daily Dots Unclick section, Klees essays, satire, and fiction have appeared inLaphams Quarterly,Vanity Fair,3:AM,Salon,the Awl,the New York Observer,the Millions, and the Village Voice. You'll also get updates on new titles we publish and the ability to save highlights and notes. 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"One thing you wonder all the time: What made them this way?" Can Alperen Sengun become a passable defender for the Rockets? Click through the slideshow to view infamous Mexican hitmen. He was sentenced to more than 80 years in prison. Rosalio Reta, convicted drug cartel assassin. Rosalio Reta, Self: Generation Z: Child Soldiers of the Zetas. To make a point, sometimes Trevino sent messages along with decapitated corpses of rival cartel members, said Reta. Reta's face became covered in tattoo markings. His mind isnt haunted by violent images from his former life. Gabriel Cardona, who shows his tattooed eyelids, worked as a hit man for a Mexican cartel. reenactment Plot summary Add synopsis Genres Documentary Biography Crime Drama Parents guide Add content advisory Details April 6, 2011 (United States) Production company Cineflix Productions See more company credits at IMDbPro In that moment, even though it was another man he was instructed to kill, Reta's life was over. 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Zavala was also charged for killing activist Marisela Escobedo in 2010. In 2009 Cardona was arrested and pleaded guilty to killing seven men and to conspiracy to kidnap and kill in a foreign country. Thats a day that Im never going to be able to forget. 'Cell' of young enforcersThe accused ring leader in the Flores killing, Jesus "Jesse" Gonzales, fled to Mexico after making bail. Now 20, Rosalio Reta is sitting on the other side of a thick glass window, speaking into a telephone handset in the visiting area of a Texas prison. Attorneys and witnesses have reported being threatened by the cartel's enforcers, and Reta has been moved into solitary confinement. Cardona was also making a name for himself at that time, and impressing the same narco leaders. "These organizations, these cartels, they function like a Fortune 500 company," Webb County, Texas, prosecutor Uriel Druker said. Reta dropped out of school in sixth grade, Cardona left in the ninth. Reta grew up in Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico read analysis of Rosalio Reta He had followed two friends to the ranch across the border where he was ordered to kill for the first time. Some, like the cartel hitman Rosalio Reta and the sadistic sheriff Joe Arpaio, are partially responsible for its violence.Others, like the addiction doctor Gabor Mat and the former president of Switzerland, Ruth Dreifuss . The job of a cartel assassin isnt one most people grow old and retire from. Last month, Zetas leader Miguel ngel Trevio, widely believed to be responsible for escalating the depraved and sadistic wave of narco-terror occurring along the borderlands, was arrested. When Reta arrived at the ranch, it was a crash course in drug cartel culture. Emanuel Arriaga, a spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state Attorney General's office, said Wednesday that prosecutors in Monterrey couldn't link Reta to any killings. He took his head off just by shooting it.. Industry chief demands planned corporation tax hike from 19 to 25% in this Ukrainian soldier takes out five Russian tanks and three armoured vehicles in ONE DAY using US-supplied Do not sell or share my personal information. All too quickly, he found himself, a young teenager, witnessing Trevios frequent executions at a small ranch house in Nuevo Laredo. 6 Cabo hotels for your spring break vacation, How to score cheap flights (and mistake fares) in 2023, Escape to Long Beach, Washington before the summer crowds, Amazon is having a big sale on Canon cameras and lenses, Score Apple AirPods for under $100 on Amazon today, Stanleys huge water bottle is less than $35 on Amazon, This Costco membership discount puts $30 back in your pocket. Now you can hear that account for yourself. Trevino had built control and protection systems to insulate his organization at every level from law enforcement agencies and politicians. They each say they lived the life for about three years, Cardona from age 16 to 19; Reta, from age 13 to 16. He was eighty when I met him, and about to be elected to his sixth consecutive term. Trevio was in the middle of everything, Reta says of the burnings and torture he witnessed, and soon began to intimidate Reta into doing his ghastly bidding. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. And like everything in the violent world of drug cartels, unraveling truth and myth seems fleeting. They brought him to a ranch where, according to Reta, 'They were torturing people and getting information from them. It was the ease with which the boys could cross back and forth across the border that made them valuable to the Mexican Zetas drug cartel. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 'I'm really a good person," he told CNN recently. Reta and Cardona agreed to give CNN rare interviews from the Texas prisons where both men are serving life sentences for murder. "They're here, they're here in the United States.". Authorities said he requested extradition after being arrested in connection with an explosion that killed four people in a crowded bar in Monterrey, Mexico. He was sentenced to more than 80 years in prison. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. Palm Springs residents sue to remove 25-foot Marilyn Monroe statue depicting her iconic My Daily Horoscope: What does 2nd March hold for MY star sign? 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', Solitary: Before he was even at the legal drinking age, Reta was locked up forever in solitary confinement, Marked man: Reta, like Cardona, received prison tattoos after his arrest, the only outward indication of what occurred in his past, Teenage dream: Cardona and Reta were living like regular teenagers before being drawn into a world of murder, drugs and cash. Discovery Company. Reta, a U.S. citizen, was extradited last year from Mexico to face charges in Flores's death. Refine any search. One of the most feared and powerful drug kingpins in the world, Trevino took drug cartel brutality to never-before-seen levels. Rosalio Reta was just 13 years old when Miguel Trevio, leader of the ruthless Zetas, the paramilitary wing of Mexicos Gulf Cartel, recruited him as a killer. All Rights Reserved. He still faces separate charges in another killing in Laredo that was allegedly carried out on the orders of the. The American teen had never before met anyone who carried a pistol adorned with such an unforgettable decoration: the number 40 encrusted in diamonds on the handle. For Reta, the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, with its nightlife, its danger and its glamor, intrigued the restless teen, and one fateful night, his curiosity was to be sated. I knew that my life had just changed forever, Reta told CNN this week, 11 years later. 2. Watch Anderson Cooper 360 weeknights 8pm ET. 'The best we could do'Reta decided to plead guilty, but retain his right to appeal, after his statement to police was allowed as evidence over his attorney's objections, said the attorney, Eduardo Pena. 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