Border / Cartel Chronicles - Page 15

A recently captured lieutenant with Los Zetas spent a little over a year in South Texas, hiding from his rivals before returning to Mexico to unleash extreme violence in the region. This cartel figure is credited with masterminding a large-scale attack that killed two Mexican soldiers and one police officer while injuring eight others in response to the recent arrest of his wife.

Con casi total impunidad, el Cártel del Golfo en Tamaulipas ha logrado expandir su control hasta el punto de operar como un gobierno alternativo en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros. Gracias a este control, todos los negocios, incluyendo vendedores de comida, florerías e incluso personas que piden dinero en la calle, deben pagar una cuota semanal de protección al Cártel del Golfo, quien opera una enorme base de datos del comercio de la ciudad e incluso utiliza a funcionarios municipales para recaudar los fondos.

With almost complete impunity, the Gulf Cartel expanded its control in Tamaulipas to the point where it operates as an alternative government in the border city of Matamoros. Through this control, all businesses, including food vendors, flower shops, and even

Influential groups in Mexico were working with U.S. oil companies to smuggle thousands of barrels of stolen oil north, only to then move them back south of the border as part of an intricate laundering operation. The case is tied to multiple raids and seizures on both sides of the border that have the potential to shake up Mexico’s political elite due to the cartel connections in these operations.

Sicarios de la facción Cártel del Noreste de Los Zetas perpetraron un ataque a gran escala contra un grupo rival cerca de una pequeña comunidad rural en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León. El combate se prolongó durante más de una hora, involucrando varios vehículos blindados, armas de alto poder y explosivos. Para cuando las autoridades respondieron, los sicarios ya habían huido, llevándose al menos cinco cuerpos de sicarios caídos, pero dejando varias camionetas blindadas incendiadas.

Gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas carried out a large-scale attack on a rival group of gunmen near a small rural community in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The fighting went on for over an hour, involving several armored vehicles, high-powered weapons, and explosives. By the time authorities responded, the gunmen had fled, taking at least five bodies of fallen gunmen but leaving several burned-out armored trucks.

Authorities in Mexico are looking into the targeted killing of two men and the injury to a third who provided training to Mexican police agencies and worked as advisors for the U.S. Department of State and other agencies.

Authorities in Mexico are looking into the abduction of a Tamaulipas State Police officer and nine members of his family in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. For reasons yet unknown, the gunmen released the officer and the family unharmed. It remains unclear if the abduction was done as a message to government officials or for other reasons.

Las autoridades mexicanas investigan el secuestro de un policía estatal de Tamaulipas y nueve miembros de su familia en la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo. Por razones aún desconocidas, días después los hombres armados liberaron al policía y a su familia ilesos. No está claro si el secuestro se realizó como un mensaje a funcionarios del gobierno o por otras razones.

Las autoridades mexicanas investigan el asesinato de dos hombres donde un tercero quedo herido; ellos impartían capacitación a agencias policiales mexicanas y trabajaban ocasionalmente como asesores para el Departamento de Estado de USA y otras agencias.

Los cárteles mexicanos están aumentando el uso de drones para reemplazar a los “halcones” o espias que monitorean la actividad de los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza estadounidense en la frontera. Según informes, los drones están reemplazando a los exploradores humanos, que frecuentemente eran menores de edad.

Authorities in southern Mexico are investigating the murder of a mayor at the hands of a team of gunmen who stormed the municipal headquarters, shooting their intended target and another city official. The attack is the second murder of a mayor in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in 2025.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the parent labor organization representing thousands of Border Patrol agents and other federal law enforcement officers, joined with NoKings.org to promote anti-Trump protests nationwide. Protesters at the events carried signs attacking ICE, the Border Patrol, and law enforcement in general.

A multi-agency task force assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with the arrest of a Guatemalan criminal alien during a targeted enforcement operation in Los Angeles. The criminal alien was deported from the United States after being sentenced to 36 months in prison for sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, officials stated.

The anti-Trump “No Kings” protest held on the grounds of the Texas Capitol continued long after the scheduled close as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Austin. The protesters, some wearing dark clothing, helmets, face coverings, and gas masks, blocked traffic, taunted police, overturned garbage receptacles, and moved barricades into the downtown streets until finally being dispersed by authorities several hours later.

Surrounded by a flurry of drag queens and a master of ceremonies dressed as a carnival barker, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) made no attempts to turn down the violent rhetoric at the Democrat sponsored “No Kings” protest in Austin on Saturday. As he told the crowd, “We are all in danger as long as President Trump is in office,” one protester proudly waved a sign that read “8647” just feet in front of the congressman.

Law enforcement officers locked down and evacuated the Texas Capitol Saturday afternoon due to a threat against lawmakers planning to attend the “No Kings” rally. The grounds re-opened and the protest continued after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a man in connection to the threat.

A Mexican politician sparked harsh criticism in her country after she taunted U.S. State Department officials to revoke her visa and to “shove it.”

In Eagle Pass, Texas, once the busiest border city in the nation for illegal alien crossings during the Biden administration, illegal alien deaths overwhelmed local funeral homes. They resulted in Maverick County authorities relying on a temporary morgue to store the deceased. This week, County officials laid to rest the last of the illegal alien remains in their emergency morgue at a local cemetery.

Following the alleged identification by Minnesota police of Vance Luther Boelter as a suspect in the assassination of Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband, reports indicate that Governor Tim Walz appointed the man to the state’s Workforce Development Board in 2019.

Minnesota police say they found a manifesto in the fake police vehicle used by a man who allegedly shot and killed the state’s speaker of the house on Saturday. Police are providing additional security to individuals who were on the list. Police did not disclose the motivation of the alleged killer.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government is not ok with the ongoing immigration raids, claiming that they are targeting “honest” and “hardworking” individuals.

Texas law enforcement authorities arrested a Houston-area man after a high-speed chase that began in the border town of Pharr. The suspect, 35-year-old Margarito Alcantar, is wanted by authorities as a suspect in a 2021 murder. 

A Minnesota state representative and her husband were shot and killed in a brutal attack at their home on Saturday morning. A state senator and his wife were also attacked and shot multiple times in their homes about an hour before the attack on the representative.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) pledged his support of the attack by Israel on Iran, saying Israel should “keep wiping out Iranian leadership and the nuclear personnel.” He posted his remarks on social media a short time after the news of Israel’s pre-emptive bombing of Iran hit the press.

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to “return control” of the deployed California National Guard soldiers to the State. The judge wrote that President Donald Trump did not follow the congressionally mandated procedures for his order to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) introduced a bill that would make any immigrant who assaults a law enforcement officer during a riot eligible for revocation of their status and deportation. Crenshaw introduced the bill, H.R. 3859, following the Los Angeles riots over immigration enforcement operations.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he is ordering the deployment of the National Guard to multiple locations across the state in advance of planned anti-ICE protests. The governor said the order is meant to “ensure peace and order.”

Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, claimed that U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem erroneously called her out, claiming that she encouraged the riots in Los Angeles.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Just outside the federal immigration courtroom in downtown San Antonio, organizers with the Party for Socialism and Liberation led an anti-ICE protest attended by more than 100 people. One passionate speaker identified herself as a San

The U.S. government moved to freeze the assets and financially target one of the leading cartels responsible for the ongoing fentanyl crisis in America and the raging cartel violence throughout Mexico.

In the midst of the Los Angeles riots, Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-TX) proposes legislation to increase the criminal penalties associated with assaulting and interfering with the duties of law enforcement officers, including ICE agents or CBP officials. Gonzales announced the proposed legislation in a Sunday press release.

Officials in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have announced that they will be requesting a federal investigation into SpaceX for polluting Mexican beaches after pieces of the company’s rockets have washed ashore in recent days.

A targeted immigration enforcement operation at an Alamo, Texas, flea market led to the arrest of six suspected illegal aliens. One of the men targeted in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation was previously arrested for attempted capital murder, officials stated.

Police in San Antonio arrested an illegal alien after he allegedly shot a former Marine working as a security guard in a bar. The Marine, working as a security guard in a bar,  is fighting for his life after he

A protest in San Antonio was attended by more than 300 people who were angry with the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass deportation enforcement actions. The rally was organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. This political party also organized and rallied leftist activists to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce immigration law in Los Angeles.