
Once again, Mexican authorities have dismantled a complex video surveillance system set up by the Gulf Cartel in order to keep tabs on authorities, their rivals and their future victims.
by Ildefonso Ortiz19 Jun 2015, 4:57 AM PST0

The announcement of two armored helicopters being sent to the Texas border just days after Mexican drug traffickers shot down a government helicopter, coupled with the signing of a new bill strengthening security in Texas, have sparked controversy in Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz12 Jun 2015, 4:56 AM PST0

Just days after Mexican drug traffickers shot down a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Helicopter on the Texas border, Breitbart Texas has learned that the agency will now send two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters to continue surveillance operations in the area.
by Ildefonso Ortiz10 Jun 2015, 4:25 PM PST0

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen once again threw two grenades at public structures, one of which landed in a Federal Courthouse in this border city, injuring innocent civilians and causing panic among unsuspecting residents.
by Breitbart Texas8 Jun 2015, 6:22 AM PST0

Breitbart Texas viajo a las ciudades fronterizas Mexicanas de Reynosa y Matamoros para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. Los escritores recibirían una muerte segura a manos del Cartel Del Golfo si no usaran un seudónimo. Breitbart’s Las Crónicas De Carteles serán publicadas tanto en inglés como en su contenido original de Español. Este artículo fue escrito por “AC Del Angel” de Reynosa y por JA Espinoza de Matamoros.
by Breitbart Texas8 Jun 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Una vez más el gobierno de Tamaulipas parece estar tratando de minimizar la percepción pública sobre la guerra contra las drogas la cual está fuera de control, en las ciudades fronterizas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jun 2015, 9:10 AM PST0

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Once again the Tamaulipas government appears to be trying to minimize the public perception of an out of control cartel war along its border cities.
by Breitbart Texas7 Jun 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

A top Zeta from Mexico who had illegally entered the U.S. and set up a methamphetamine distribution network in San Antonio will spend 35 years in prison on a federal drug trafficking charge and a weapons charge. He is also expected to be sentenced to 35 additional years for other drug trafficking charges tied to his role as a top Zeta.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jun 2015, 8:37 AM PST0

As Mexico’s security conditions continue to worsen, bipartisan Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Secretary of State John Kerry and asking him why U.S. Consulate Offices in that country should remain open given the out of control violence in that country.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jun 2015, 10:06 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — An undercover sting by federal agents and an informant revealed a bustling market for grenades and explosive devices in this Texas border city. Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives arrested Albert Joseph Ortiz and Cesar Geovanni Flores earlier this week on the charge of possession of a destructive device. They allegedly tried to sell 10 grenades to a government informant, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Jun 2015, 7:15 AM PST0

Breitbart Texas viajo a las ciudades fronterizas Mexicanas de Reynosa y Matamoros para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. Los escritores recibirían una muerte segura a manos del Cartel Del Golfo si no usaran un seudónimo. Breitbart’s Las Crónicas De Carteles serán publicadas tanto en inglés como en su contenido original de Español. Este artículo fue escrito por el escritor invitado @MrCruzStar de Reynosa.
by Ildefonso Ortiz2 Jun 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the Gulf Cartel if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by guest writer @MrCruzStar from Reynosa.
by Breitbart Texas2 Jun 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

A series of banners hung throughout the Mexican border city of Reynosa have raised the eyebrows of many residents, and apparently point to a Gulf Cartel commander assuming control of a local crime factions.
by Ildefonso Ortiz1 Jun 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

Breitbart Texas viajo a las ciudades fronterizas Mexicanas de Reynosa y Matamoros para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. Los escritores recibirían una muerte segura a manos del Cartel Del Golfo si no usaran un seudónimo. Breitbart’s Las Crónicas De Carteles serán publicadas tanto en inglés como en su contenido original de Español. Este artículo fue escrito por “AC Del Angel” de Reynosa.
by Ildefonso Ortiz31 May 2015, 10:15 AM PST0

The man known as “Comandante Toro,” who runs the Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel in Reynosa, has managed to evade a series of recent moves by authorities to capture him. Authorities had captured him in March, however as Breitbart Texas had previously reported, he had managed to negotiate and bribe his way out.
by Ildefonso Ortiz31 May 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

The mayor of the Mexican city of San Fernando survived a brazen attack by drug cartel gunmen who fired upon the convoy that he had been travelling in. The attack took place earlier this week when Mayor Mario De La Garza Garza had been travelling back from the rural community of El Norteño after visiting the areas that had been affected by the recent rains, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas Government revealed.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 May 2015, 5:09 AM PST0

Four men and one woman from the border city of Laredo, Texas have been sentenced to federal prison in connection with the kidnapping at gunpoint of a woman, and the attempted kidnapping of her daughter, under orders from the fearsome Los Zetas drug cartel.
by Ildefonso Ortiz29 May 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

In an act that shocked the residents of a city who thought they had seen it all, five adolescents in the border city of Ciudad Juárez – a stone’s throw from El Paso, TX – between the ages of 11 and 15 are being investigated for stoning, stabbing, and burying a six year-old boy on May 16.
by Sylvia Longmire29 May 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

A criminal alien with four previous convictions has pleaded guilty to taking part in a kidnapping in the border city of McAllen, Texas under orders from his cartel bosses in Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz28 May 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

An illegal alien from Honduras believed to have fled back home has been identified as the prime suspect in a robbery-turned-murder in Texas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz28 May 2015, 7:43 AM PST0

A fierce gun battle between Gulf Cartel members and the Mexican military left five gunmen dead near the Texas border city of Rio Bravo. The shootout took place when a Mexican military convoy was conducting routine patrols near an intersection on the main highway connecting the city of Rio Bravo with the border city of Matamoros, information released by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
by Ildefonso Ortiz27 May 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

Breitbart Texas viajo a las ciudades fronterizas Mexicanas de Reynosa y Matamoros para reclutar a ciudadanos periodistas dispuestos a arriesgar sus vidas para exhibir a los carteles que amordazan a sus comunidades. Los escritores recibirían una muerte segura a manos del Cartel Del Golfo si no usaran un seudónimo. Breitbart’s Las Crónicas De Carteles serán publicadas tanto en inglés como en su contenido original de Español. Este artículo fue escrito por “JA Espinoza” de Matamoros.
by Ildefonso Ortiz26 May 2015, 7:25 AM PST0

Organized crime continues to intimidate the citizens of Matamoros with three separate grenade attacks in a matter of days.
by Ildefonso Ortiz26 May 2015, 7:05 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — The Sinaloa Federation, or its increasingly independent Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion faction, appear to have been using this border city as a staging area to move heroin to northern cities in Ohio and New Jersey.
by Ildefonso Ortiz26 May 2015, 5:21 AM PST0

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – The explosion caused by two grenades thrown by suspected cartel members at two federal buildings in this border city set off a massive deployment by federal and state forces on a manhunt to capture the suspects.
by Breitbart Texas23 May 2015, 8:39 AM PST0