
As the border region has exploded into a war zone, a grenade was thrown at a local border television station, part of the the Gulf Cartel’s continued efforts to silence the Mexican media from reporting on the escalating violence.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Feb 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

One of the commanders in the ongoing cartel war that has terrorized the cities just south of the Texas border and left 14 hitmen dead in just three days is a previously deported alien.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Feb 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — Cartel gunmen kidnapped and beat the director of a local Mexican newspaper warning him to stop reporting on the ongoing violence. This is the latest attempt by the Gulf Cartel to silence media about the escalating violence in the area immediately south of Texas’ border with Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Feb 2015, 12:30 PM PST0

Amid the fierce fighting between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel, the Mexican military came upon a warehouse that was being used to make armored vehicles.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Feb 2015, 6:50 AM PST0

After several days of chaos near the Texas border due to cartel firefights, unknown individuals threw a grenade at the Matamoros City Hall, a Mexican city just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Feb 2015, 6:06 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas – For three days warring factions of the Gulf Cartel have turned a number of cities just south of the Texas border into a warzone that has left at least 14 gunmen dead with the true number of casualties remaining unknown.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Feb 2015, 9:05 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas –Two alleged cartel hitmen have been jailed, charged with using machine guns to shoot at a hotel used as barracks by Mexican federal police near the Texas border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Feb 2015, 9:12 PM PST0

Massive gun battles between factions of the Mexican Gulf Cartel in the cities south of the Texas border have turned the region into a war zone. Convoys of rival cartel gunmen have been clashing throughout the day in the cities
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Feb 2015, 4:46 PM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — A four-year-old boy from the Texas border town of Roma has been returned to his family following his kidnapping by cartel gunmen in Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Jan 2015, 6:06 PM PST0

Two members of the feared Los Zetas Cartel allegedly attempted to bribe Mexican soldiers near the border city of Nuevo Laredo. To their surprise, the soldiers rejected the bribe and arrested them.
by Ildefonso Ortiz28 Jan 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

A special detail of Mexican federal authorities have arrived to this Mexican border city in an effort to locate the final resting place of hundreds of individuals who have been reported missing and are believed to have ended up in shallow mass graves.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Jan 2015, 2:04 PM PST0

Federal authorities are investigating an officer-related shooting where U.S Border Patrol agents killed a suspect who had pulled a pellet gun on them.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Jan 2015, 7:27 AM PST0

Tamaulipas State Police officers helped Texas cops by arresting a suspected murderer that had escaped to the Mexican border city of Reynosa to hide.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Jan 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

Mexican authorities have confirmed that drug cartel gunmen kidnapped the dean of a state funded Mexican border university more than a month ago and his fate remains unknown.
by Ildefonso Ortiz24 Jan 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

A deadly ambush by a drug cartel resulted in the death of a Mexican police officer and two of his colleagues getting shot. As the officers fought for their lives, they killed a cartel gunman and injured two others.
by Ildefonso Ortiz24 Jan 2015, 6:42 AM PST0

Two Gulf Cartel gunmen died in a shootout with the Mexican military in Reynosa, a border city in the northern party of Tamaulipas, Mexico, directly across the border from Hidalgo, Texas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz23 Jan 2015, 4:10 AM PST0

A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a drug trafficker and likely cartel member who fired at authorities during a failed drug smuggling attempt near the Texas border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz22 Jan 2015, 3:13 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — A Mexican University in the border city of Nuevo Laredo has temporarily shut its doors citing safety concerns after a series of apparent cartel threats. The Nuevo Laredo campus of Universidad Valle De Mexico (UVM) recently shut
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Jan 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — The former head of the Mexican Gulf Cartel pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges in Texas. He was originally caught on the Texas border by U.S. authorities.
by Ildefonso Ortiz15 Jan 2015, 9:36 AM PST0

A Democrat Texas Congressman wrote a letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Bidden asking him to focus on the worsening security situation in Mexico which “has ripped apart our way of life on the U.S. Mexico Border.”
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

The son of legendary Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas remains in federal custody after U.S. agents arrested him at the Texas border. He was allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of ammunition rounds and weapons parts into Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The ever worsening security situation in Mexico has led to a new mode of transportation for Mexican tourists that includes traveling in a convoy with police escorts at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more — all in an effort to avoid getting carjacked by drug cartels on their journey to the U.S. border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2015, 9:33 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — After a brief firefight, the Mexican army rescued a kidnapped woman from a group of cartel gunmen near the Texas border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Jan 2015, 9:00 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas – The Mexican military seized an armored vehicle loaded with a grenade launcher and several other drug cartel weapons and ammunition just south of the Texas border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jan 2015, 10:57 AM PST0