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An interview with Rosalio Reta..
Originally a Yeats scholar, his most recent book is Dracula and the Eastern.
Hitman for Mexican Drug Cartel Gives Chilling Interview From Behind Bars
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Rosalio Reta was just 13 years old when Miguel Treviño, leader of the ruthless Zetas, the paramilitary wing of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, recruited him as a killer.
Before Treviño’s capture and arrest by Mexican marines a week ago, the Center for Investigative Reporting spoke with Reta about his horrific experience as a murderous cog in Los Zetas.
Now you can hear that account for yourself.
“He was one of the first persons I seen to cut somebody’s head off,” Reta says of the notoriously bloodthirsty Treviño, who ascended to the top of the violent cartel with acts of spectacular cruelty.
“He took his head off just by shooting it.”
The tattooed but somewhat soft-spoken Reta, who grew up in Laredo, Texas, but had family in Mexico, recounts how he was attracted by myths of the narco lifestyle on the other side of the river.
All too quickly, he found himself, a young teenager, witnessing T