Nearly two hundred U.S. citizens have been murdered in Mexico since 2013. Fierce gunfights, kidnappings, bus hijackings, car-jackings and extortion by Mexican cartels are all possibilities that could be faced by U.S. citizens travelling into Mexico. These have resulted in the murder of 181 Americans in the past two years.
The capture of a regional boss for the Gulf Cartel set off a fierce firefight throughout the border city of Reynosa. The bustling industrial city was turned into a warzone. Bystanders frantically sought refuge while gunmen and soldiers exchanged gunfire.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – The dismembered bodies of two women stuffed into ice chests and the headless body of a man spread terror throughout a large commercial plaza just a few feet away from an international bridge that connects this border city to Brownsville, Texas.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Tras dos ejecuciones de empresarios locales, hoy solamente moños negros limitan las puertas de acceso a los establecimientos, revelando un panorama desolador que se vive a diario en la frontera.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The Tamaulipas state government and local media are silent after the executions of two local entrepreneurs in recent weeks by drug cartel gunmen. Black ribbons now decorate the doors to their businesses acting as a grim reminder of the daily life in this border city just south of Brownsville, Texas.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — El ambiente en esta ciudad fronteriza sigue tenso y violento, enfrentamientos y ejecuciones el día a día en la frontera de Tamaulipas.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Clashes and executions are daily occurrences at the border of Tamaulipas, just south of the Texas border with Mexico. The atmosphere in this border city remains strained and violent.
MCALLEN, Texas — The sentencing of a Gulf Cartel commander has been postponed after a federal judge refused to hand down a slap on the wrist. He asked prosecutors and the federal probation office to do more research before sentencing him.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities caught a regional commander of the Gulf Cartel near the Texas border. Despite his ridiculous nickname, he had made a name for himself as one of the fiercest and most cruel enforcers for the criminal organization.
Two commanders with Los Zetas who appear to be behind most of the kidnapping and extortion activity in the border city of Nuevo Laredo and the Tamaulipas State Capital of Ciudad Victoria are now behind bars.
Mexico’s Federal Police arrested Sarahi “La Hysteria” Garza Cadena during a traffic stop this past week in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. She was traveling in a car with two of her henchmen. Authorities recovered some weapons, a grenade, 15 kilograms of marijuana and communication equipment during the arrest, information released to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
Cartel gunmen in Matamoros have thrown a grenade at a Mexican TV station near the Texas border for the second time in as many months. The latest attack took place at the Televisa station. This is the same station that in February, Breitbart Texas reported that two employees were injured when Gulf Cartel gunmen lobbed a grenade at the security booth at the entrance.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Las constantes pugnas de grupos dentro de la organización criminal denominada Cartel del Golfo amenazan con una nueva etapa de violencia para la ciudad de Reynosa en Tamaulipas. Una de las pugnas que amenaza con mas violencia tiene que ver con una aparente traición por uno de los mandos del Cartel Del Golfo que se presume dio información de otro comandante y una rápida venganza por la parte afectada.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The constant infighting within the groups that make up the Gulf cartel point to a new wave of violence coming to in this border city. One of the fights that may bring more violence has to do with the apparent betrayal by one of the commanders who is believed to have tipped off authorities on another commander. That cartel leader answered with a swift revenge and execution.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — La ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa vivió una noche de terror cuando un intento fallido de apresar a un comandante del Cartel del Gofo desato un enfrentamiento armado en una de las principales avenidas. El enfrentamiento paralizó a la ciudad y aterrorizó a las familias que se divertían en centros comerciales y restaurantes en el cierre del fin de semana.
The border city of Reynosa lived through a night of terror when a failed attempt to capture a Gulf Cartel commander set off a fierce shootout in one of the city’s main avenues. The shootout brought the city to a halt and terrified many families who had been out in shopping centers and restaurants to finish off their weekend.
MCALLEN, Texas – El Gobierno de Tamaulipas se ha adjudicado la captura de un comandante de alto rango del Cartel Del Golfo el cual fue arrestado en Texas, afirmando que su captura al igual que la de otros 12 capos de alto nivel es parte de una nueva estrategia de seguridad para Tamaulipas del Gobierno Mexicano.
MCALLEN, Texas – The Tamaulipas government has taken credit for the capture of a high ranking Gulf cartel commander caught in Texas, claiming his capture along with 12 other top capos was part of the Mexican Government’s new security strategy for Tamaulipas.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — El enemigo dentro de las filas de los que luchan contra el crimen organizado se llama corrupción. La lucha contra el crimen organizado en Tamaulipas tiene un enemigo invisible, uno con mucho poder, uno muy grande que obstaculiza los intentos por pacificar al estado e incluso amenaza con ganar esta guerra.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – The fight against organized crime in this border state has an invisible enemy, one with enough size and power to block the attempts to quiet down Tamaulipas; it even threatens to win the ongoing war on drugs. That enemy is corruption within the ranks of the those who are supposed to be fighting the cartels.
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Border authorities have found a nude decapitated body of a Mexican national near the Spring Break resort city of South Padre Island. The area is a popular destination for Texas students and sits close the U.S.-Mexico border on the Gulf of Mexico.
MCALLEN, Texas – A Gulf Cartel commander who at one time commanded a strike team of 60 trucks with as many as 240 gunmen will spend 50 years in federal prison. His brother, also a cartel commander, will spend 35 years in federal prison.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — La ejecución en esta ciudad fronteriza de un comandante del Cartel del Golfo conocido como el Ciclón 10 mientras comía en una cafetería llamada “La Chiquita” desato una serie de balacera y apunta a una nueva ola de violencia en la cruenta guerra interna del Cartel del Golfo.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The execution of a local commander with the Gulf Cartel called Ciclon 10 in this border city as he ate a local cafeteria called “La Chiquita” set off a day of firefights and heralds a new wave of violence in the already fierce war within the Gulf Cartel.
Fourteen Mexican federales have been arrested for running a kidnapping crew that had been targeting Mexican businessmen near the Texas border.
The Mexican Army arrested the fourteen agents and rescued the businessman this week in the border city of Matamoros, according to information released to Breitbart Texas by Mexican federal investigators.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Las tradicionales fiestas mexicanas celebradas recientemente en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros Tamaulipas, generaron el despliegue de seguridad por parte de elementos de corporaciones estatales y federales. Por otro lado miembros de los carteles del narco continuaron sus confrontaciones en las zonas rurales y colindantes.
Desde el mes pasado dos bandos rivales del Cartel del Golfo desataron una guerra entre ellos la cual continua hasta el momento.
