
Un hombre que se había detenido para comprar chicharrones de cerdo terminó recibiendo varios disparos por un grupo de hombres armados en esta ciudad fronteriza mexicana. El intento de asesinato no fue cubierto por los medios de comunicación locales ya que los cárteles de la droga como Los Zetas en Coahuila y el Cártel del Golfo en Tamaulipas han logrado colocar una mordaza en cuanto a la violencia.
by Cartel Chronicles11 Nov 2015, 12:23 PM PST0

A man who had stopped to buy pork cracklings ended up getting shot at multiple times by a group of gunmen in this Mexican border city. The attempted murder was not covered by local news outlets since drug cartels like Los Zetas in Coahuila and the Gulf Cartel in Tamaulipas have managed to place a gag on violent activity.
by Cartel Chronicles11 Nov 2015, 11:31 AM PST0

Two of Mexico’s cruelest criminal organizations ended up making a statement about not tolerating unsanctioned crime in their territories. While the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas have been fierce rivals for years, last week the two criminal organizations ended up placing narco-banners along with tortured criminals in separate cases. In the border city of Nuevo Laredo Los Zetas left the remains of five men while in this port city the Gulf Cartel left two naked and humiliated men tied up with the banner.
by Cartel Chronicles10 Nov 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Dos de las organizaciones criminales mas crueles en este país aparentemente mandaron un fuerte mensaje de que no toleraran crímenes no sancionados en sus territorios.
by Cartel Chronicles10 Nov 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The recent execution of a top athlete at the state university in this city points to the ongoing fighting between rival factions of the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel. Tamaulipas is the Mexican state immediately south of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and Laredo Sectors.
by Cartel Chronicles5 Nov 2015, 3:24 AM PST0

A top commander with the fearsome Los Zetas cartel who may have been trying to sneak into Texas begged authorities to help him as he surrendered in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz22 Oct 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

Gunmen suspected of being part of Los Zetas drug cartel fired an RPG at the headquarters of a special police unit in the border city of Piedras Negras Coahuila; the rocket-propelled grenade did not explode. Piedras Negras is the sister city of Eagle Pass, Texas, and sits immediately across the border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz19 Oct 2015, 7:24 AM PST0

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.
by Breitbart Texas16 Oct 2015, 9:38 AM PST0

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.
by Ildefonso Ortiz16 Oct 2015, 7:17 AM PST0

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.
by Breitbart Texas15 Oct 2015, 8:48 AM PST0

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.
by Breitbart Texas15 Oct 2015, 7:42 AM PST0

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.
by Ildefonso Ortiz14 Oct 2015, 4:05 AM PST0

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.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Oct 2015, 6:26 AM PST0

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.
by Ildefonso Ortiz12 Oct 2015, 5:22 AM PST0

TAMPICO, Tamaulipas—The Gulf Cartel in this city appears to have taken revenge for a crime that rocked the southern part of Tamaulipas and became worldwide news; the father and brother of a famed film director were kidnapped and executed. The murder took place even after the relatives had paid the kidnapping ransom. Days after the case became public, the bodies of the executed kidnappers turned up alongside with a narco-banner signed by the Gulf Cartel.
by Breitbart Texas30 Sep 2015, 6:54 AM PST0

Two top U.S. congressmen from Texas demand that the United States take “immediate action” to extradite two former Mexican governors from the border state of Tamaulipas accused of working with Mexican drug cartels.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Sep 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

A total of 18 members of Los Zetas drug smuggling cell that operated in Texas and moved drugs from Laredo to Dallas plead guilty to various charges in U.S. federal court and are awaiting sentencing.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Sep 2015, 7:47 AM PST0

Two illegal aliens have been sent to prison in connection with their role in growing 11,500 marijuana plants in Texas. The father and son duo are expected to be deported after completing their sentence.
by Ildefonso Ortiz23 Sep 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

Mexican drug cartels control drug trafficking in multiple cities throughout the Southwest and continue to spread over the entire nation, a DEA report reveals.
by Ildefonso Ortiz8 Sep 2015, 6:09 AM PST0

A Texas woman was shot in Mexico after leaving her dentist appointment. An unknown gunman walked up to a woman from San Antonio and shot her in the head. The woman had just walked out of a dentist’s office in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Aug 2015, 7:55 AM PST0

A Mexican reporter was gunned down Thursday morning alongside a top regional Zeta boss. He was killed along with four others and the regional boss for the Mexican cartel Los Zetas in the city of Orizaba Veracruz.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Aug 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

An would-be narco carjacking victim targeted by cartel gunmen turned the table on the criminals when he used his car to run over the leader of the group. The attempted carjacking took place at a highway in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz9 Aug 2015, 11:27 AM PST0

Mexican marines killed six gunmen from Los Zetas cartel who tried to shoot down a military helicopter near the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jul 2015, 9:23 AM PST0

Un grupo de deportistas de la ciudad de Reynosa fue interceptado por un comando armado y fueron privados de su libertad dos adolescentes, entrenador y un padre de familia cuando se dirigían al torneo nacional de béisbol copa Telmex en la ciudad de Querétaro.
by Cartel Chronicles5 Jul 2015, 11:29 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 pseudonyms were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Reynosa’s “AC Del Angel.”
by Cartel Chronicles5 Jul 2015, 9:38 AM PST0