SUMMARY

Los Zetas – Jorge Ivan Hernandez Cantu faction was a prison gang consisting of members of the Los Zetas cartel, imprisoned in the Topo Chico prison in the town of Monterrey in Mexico. By 2016 the faction, named after its leader, also called "El Credo," had been in control of the old and overcrowded prison for some time. The prison had been criticized by human rights organizations for the bad conditions the inmates lived in, with most of them lacking running water and electricity, as well as for the prison directors’ inability to stop violence within the prison. This stood in stark contrast to the “luxury cells” that was later found in the prison where the privileged inmates that controlled the prison – i.e. Los Zetas – Jorge Ivan Hernandez Cantu faction - lived; these cells were equipped with large televisions, saunas, air conditions and other luxury items.

By February 2016 the Los Zetas – Juan Pedro Salvador Saldivar Farias faction challenged the group for its privileged position in the prison.