MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — A massive show of force by Mexican authorities took place Friday as a result of the capture of Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriguez also known as Orejon or Ciclon 7–the leader of the Gulf Cartel in this border city.
On October 7, the US Department of Justice announced the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) had dismantled a drug trafficking organization responsible for the transportation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine and drug money between Puerto Rico and the Continental United States. This organization was using drug mules to smuggle kilograms of cocaine hidden in suitcases on airplanes.
MATAMOROS, Tamulipas – Las autoridades mexicanas detuvieron a uno de los principales líderes dentro de la estructura del Cártel del Golfo. El hombre, conocido como “El Orejón”, o “Ciclón 7”, es el actual líder de la facción de los Ciclones que controla esta ciudad fronteriza.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas—Mexican authorities have arrested one of the top leaders within the Gulf Cartel structure. The man, known as El Orejon, or Ciclon 7, is the current leader of the Ciclones faction which is in control of this border city.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Una serie de ejecuciones y brotes de violencia que se han estado llevado acabo en esta capital del estado indican cambios en el cartel de los Zetas y auguran aun mas violencia.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas—A series of execution and raging violence that have been taking place in this state capital point to a change within Los Zetas drug cartel and perhaps even more violence.
Thursday at a reception for Hispanic Heritage Month, President Barack Obama said we do not make America great by “building walls,” as advocated by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Obama said, “That’s what this is all about, everybody doing their part
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Una serie de pancartas colgadas por Los Zetas en esta ciudad culpan al subsecretario de Seguridad Pública de Tamaulipas de aceptar jugosos sobornos del Cártel del Golfo en Reynosa. La medida parece ser el último capítulo de un intento de dirigir la atención pública de un cártel a otro.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — A series of banners hung by Los Zetas in this city blame the Tamaulipas Undersecretary of Public Safety of taking juicy bribes from the Gulf Cartel in Reynosa. The move appears to be the latest chapter in an attempt to direct public attention from one cartel to the other.
Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) said on October 11 that the Defense Secretariat must find and release any communications with the U.S. government relating to the disappearance last year of 43 education students in southern Mexico.
Mexican artist Ana Teresa Fernández is attempting to paint a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in along so that it appears invisible, CBS News reports.
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner recently wrapped up a visit to Mexico, describing his visit as “sobering.” Despite noting several legislative developments and reforms in the country, the Mexican people have painted a tragic picture filled with widespread corruption and insecurity.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Violent clashes in this border city have led to nine deaths–one of those was a soldier and the eight others were hit-men with Los Zetas drug cartel. The shootouts took place not far from the Rio Grande and the Texas city of Laredo.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The Gulf Cartel had eight armored trucks hidden in an underground bunker-like garage in the outskirts of this border city that sits immediately across the border from South Texas. The seizure took place this weekend following an air and land operation by the Mexican Army in the rural areas near this city, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
Seven Mexican nationals were convicted in Texas of forcing illegal immigrant females, both adults and minors, to engage in prostitution in Houston-area bars. The Mexican nationals admitted to enticing young girls and women from Mexico to be smuggled into Texas illegally across the porous border and then using physical threats and force to make the females sell their bodies to Houston-area men.
On October 7, the US Justice Department released a statement saying that one of Honduras’ most powerful businessmen and two of his family members have been indicted for allegedly laundering money for drug traffickers. Seven businesses were also labeled “specially designated narcotics traffickers” under the Kingpin Act.
Mexican authorities continue to look into the kidnapping that led to a firefight that killed five Los Zetas cartel members and one Mexican soldier. A series of graphic photos obtained by Breitbart Texas shows the carnage that took place not far from the border with the United States in Nuevo Laredo, the sister city of Laredo, Texas.
The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal has a big problem with talk radio.
Once again, the media’s leading flacks for illegal aliens and the non-Republican wing of the Republican party are pointing the finger at Rush Limbaugh et al for the ongoing turmoil in the GOP.
Five cartel kidnappers and one Mexican soldier died during a fierce gun battle in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, just south from the Texas city of Laredo. The soldiers managed to rescue a woman that Los Zetas had apparently kidnapped. The shootout took place over the weekend when soldiers with the Mexican military set up an operation to rescue a kidnapping victim, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
The sheriff in this Texas border county has called out the inaccurate reporting done by the Daily Mail for a story about life on the Texas border.
MCALLEN, Texas—A woman from Romania previously convicted of a store burglary and deported found her way back to Texas just months later.
On October 8, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced that the pilot who helped notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán escape from a high-security prison had been captured. This was the first time any mention had been made of a pilot being involved in the plot, and authorities did not say if the arrest was bringing them any closer to discovering Guzmán’s whereabouts.
Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee declared, “if I were president, I would deploy the director of Homeland Security to Laredo, Texas, and tell him he and his family would be living there, and wouldn’t get to leave until
On Thursday, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a controversial bill that would have protected immigrants with low-level drug charges from being deported, so long as they completed treatment programs, suggesting that the bill “goes too far.”
A Mexican drug cartel had a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer working for them at an international port of entry in this border city. That U.S. federal officer will be spending six and a half years in prison for using his badge to help cartel drug smugglers get their loads into America.
