PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Mexican authorities shut down a clandestine radio network used by suspected members of Los Zetas south of the Texas border.
The seizure was made this week by members of the Fuerza Coahuila police force in the hilly area near Ciudad Acuña, a Mexican border city south of Del Rio, Texas. Authorities were performing a helicopter reconnaissance flight when they spotted a clandestine radio antenna, repeater, communication equipment, battery packs, solar panels, and other items.
The helicopter crew radioed the location to ground forces which seized the radio antenna.
As Breitbart Texas reported, Ciudad Acuña is a region commonly used by Los Zetas to move large shipments of narcotics and humans into Del Rio. The illegal shipments are then moved into San Antonio and other U.S. cities.
Coahuila is one border state that has a long history of key government officials being linked to Los Zetas. Breitbart Texas reported in 2016 about a cartel banner disseminated by a faction of Los Zetas called Grupo Bravo, where they identified the mayor of Ciudad Acuña as protecting the cartel. That faction, along with Vieja Escuela Z, was fighting against the faction Cartel Del Noreste or CDN, the group currently operating in Coahuila. In that banner, Grupo Bravo called out the mayor of Ciudad Acuña as someone who would protect their rivals.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León 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 various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas 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 “J.M. Martinez” from Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
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