MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — High ranking members of the Gulf Cartel have picked their candidate for congress in the next election in this border city.
After getting 6,000 signatures of support, Jorge Renteria Campos the chairman of the Matamoros Bar Association is preparing to take the helm of the Independent Party in his quest for political office as a federal congressman.
Tres personas fallecieron tras una nueva jornada de violencia donde las víctimas quedaron atrapados en el fuego cruzado de los miembros del crimen organizado en esta ciudad fronteriza.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas –Three innocent bystanders died after getting caught in the crossfire of a fierce firefight between rival cartel members in the most recent series of fierce firefights that have rocked this border city.
Once again the streets of Matamoros were painted in red this week when a vehicle pursuit and a gun battle led to a gruesome car wreck in the city’s southwest side near the Sendero Nacional highway.
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.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – The traditional Mexican celebrations recently held in this border city set off a massive security detail by state and federal authorities looking to reestablish peace to the area. Meanwhile, drug cartel members continued their large scale gun battles in the surrounding rural areas.
Historically the festivities in Matamoros have been held in a simultaneous fashion with the Charro Day’s Celebration held in Brownsville where the mayors of both cities meet in one of the international bridges to exchange pleasantries. While this year the festivities were held without any problem, two warring factions of the Gulf Cartel continued their fighting along highways and rural areas.
Mientras la guerra interna del Cartel Del Golfo la cual está por cumplir un mes y ha convertido a las ciudades fronterizas en zonas de guerra, una serie de ejecuciones muestran un posible cambio de tácticas. Donde antes las balaceras campales estaban a la orden del día, ahora los secuestros de rivales seguidos por brutales mutilaciones se están convirtiendo en un hecho cotidiano. La intención de la táctica aparenta ser un intento por sembrar terror en cualquiera que trabaje para una facción rival.
As the Gulf Cartel continues their almost month long internal war that has turned various Mexican cities into warzones, a series of gruesome executions and mutilations appear to point to a major shift in tactics. Where open gunfights were the norm, now the targeting of individual enemies and gruesome mutilations are occurring. The intent appears to be an effort to strike terror into anyone who works against cartel faction.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Presuntos integrantes del crimen organizado en Matamoros Tamaulipas lanzan amenazas directas en contra administradores de paginas en redes sociales, así como a usuarios, civiles que utilizan las frecuencias de radio activas a travez del canal (ZELLO #MZDP oficial) que denuncian en tiempo real situaciones de alto riesgo, hechos que se suscitan a lo largo de ciudades fronterizas.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Cartel members have begun making threats at citizen journalists who run social media pages in Twitter and Facebook that warn about cartel activity, as well as individuals who use a radio application called Zello which provides real time information about shootouts and other dangerous situations along Mexican border cities.
MCALLEN, Texas – The Gulf Cartel’s top cocaine distributor in Matamoros remains behind bars following his recent arrest in that Mexican border city . The arrest took place following an anonymous tip and a follow-up investigation that led authorities to
The raging cartel war in Mexico near the Texas border has escalated so far out of control that the Mayor of the border city of Matamoros called on the Mexican government to step in and help with the ongoing violence.
A bipartisan delegation of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) was at Anzalduras Park on the Rio Grande border on Saturday. Breitbart Texas was there when Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE), and committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE), finished their Rio Grande tour of the war-torn region near Reynosa and Matamoros.
MCALLEN, Texas – Two American citizens who are U.S. Army veterans remain missing after taking a trip to the Mexican border city of Matamoros. According to information released to Breitbart Texas by Brownsville Police, Ernesto and Jesus Garcia had travelled to
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.
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
Mexican authorities have arrested the Social Development Secretary for the Mexican border city of Matamoros on apparent tax evasion charges.
