Border Violence - Page 3

A narco-terrorist organization, the Gulf Cartel, kidnapped three innocent laborers after mistaking them for rivals. The case turned fatal when one of the kidnapping victims died in a car crash along with two cartel gunmen who were moving him.

Officials in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas used their official social media accounts to discredit recent news articles about cartel shootouts. At the same time, these officials made false or misleading claims about the circumstances surrounding the shooting events.

Two drug cartels with a long history of animosity appear to have set their differences aside in an attempt to gang up on a rival organization. The new alliance led to the continued fierce turf war over control of lucrative drug and human trafficking routes into Texas.

Authorities in Mexico are searching for a teenager from Texas who went missing while visiting relatives in the border state of Tamaulipas. The disappearance comes at a time when Tamaulipas has become one of the most violent states in Mexico due to raging cartel violence and the perceived failure of state and federal officials to address it.

Ten cartel gunmen died, and four police officers sustained various injuries during a shootout in Mexico on a highway that connects the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with the Monterrey, Nuevo León, metropolitan area. Nuevo Laredo is tightly controlled by the Cartel del Noreste faction of Los Zetas — one of the most ruthless criminal organizations in Mexico which is responsible for thousands of kidnappings, murders, and forced disappearances.

El reciente secuestro de dos adolescentes en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas ha revelado el uso de vehículos y uniformes policiales clonados por sicarios del Cartel del Golfo para llevar a cabo secuestros y otras operaciones. Los hombres armados se han hecho pasar por miembros de la Guardia Nacional de México.

A fierce turf war between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel turned one of the main cities in Tamaulipas into a war zone. Convoys of gunmen in armored vehicles clashed while Mexican authorities continue their claim that the state is safe and that violence in a myth spread through social media.

A Texas man pleaded guilty to buying a gun for the Gulf Cartel used by gunmen in Mexico during a kidnapping where two U.S. citizens were murdered.

Cartel gunmen and Mexican Army soldiers clashed right at the Texas border in a fierce shootout where three gunmen died. The gunfight spread terror among motorists trying to cross one of the area’s international ports of entry. The shootout is one of several clashes that have taken place in that location as rival factions of the Gulf Cartel fight for control of the region, while government officials in Mexico try to minimize the situation and claim all is safe.

Mexican authorities remain tight-lipped about a weekend raid in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, targeting the son of a top regional Gulf Cartel boss. The quietness behind the raid led locals to speculate if the move could be an attempt to negotiate a deal in order to stop the recent turf war between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel plaguing the border region.

In the Mexican border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, locals are locking themselves in their homes as soon as the sun goes down due to an ongoing war between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel. The renewed fighting led to more than a week of fighting in several parts of the state of Tamaulipas despite an intense effort by state and federal authorities to deny the violence and minimize what they can’t hide.

Mexican authorities denied the violence taking place in the northern part of Tamaulipas. Hours later, they deployed more than 700 military soldiers and national guardsmen to the region.

Several vehicles seized during a day of shootouts revealed that the fearsome narco-terrorist Cartel Jalisco New Generation appears to be operating in the border state of Tamaulipas. The deadly cartel is allegedly working in an alliance of sorts with one faction of the Gulf Cartel.

Cartel violence continues to escalate in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, particularly around its capital and surrounding communities as the Gulf Cartel seeks to expand its territories. This move by the cartel brought a rise in violence that is negatively impacting local communities.

An ongoing turf war for control of a key logistical city in the border state of Tamaulipas is spreading terror among locals as new kidnappings and shootouts led to the deaths of innocent bystanders.

Una guerra territorial por el control de una ciudad clave en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas está sembrando el terror entre los lugareños, ya que nuevos secuestros y tiroteos han provocado la muerte de victimas inocentes.

A group of gunmen ambushed and killed a local police commander and one of his officers in the Mexican border state of Sonora. The gunmen fired more than one hundred rounds into the victim’s vehicle causing catastrophic injuries that left the two men disfigured.

Cartel gunmen and police forces clashed in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, in a chase-turned-shootout. The shootout, which went on for over an hour spread, terror among the local community.

The fate of a Texas man remains unknown after a team of cartel gunmen took him out of a house in Laredo, Texas, and crossed him into the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The victim reportedly bragged about stealing $50,000 from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

Fierce shootouts between cartel gunmen and Mexican soldiers continue in and around the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The intense shootouts come at a time when politicians claim that the border state of Tamaulipas is safe.

A group of Mexican police officers talked a crying Gulf Cartel gunman into surrendering his gun. The gunman appeared to have been a migrant forced to join the criminal organization. He later asked to be sent back to his home country.

The investigation into a kidnapping that turned fatal after one of the suspects shot a fellow would-be kidnapper by accident led to another suspect’s arrest. The case is reportedly tied to a dispute between human smuggling groups connected to the Gulf Cartel.

The son of the ultimate leader of the Gulf Cartel will spend more than eight years in a U.S. prison for coordinating the shipment of weapons into Mexico for the criminal organization once led by his father. He was on supervised release at the time of his arrest. The narco-heir has a long history of prior convictions on weapons charges and is currently facing multiple charges in a Texas court for a violent stabbing in the border city of Brownsville.

Mexican state investigators seized a Lamborghini, raided a cartel clinic, and even seized a Matamoros city ambulance as part of the hunt for the cartel boss alleged to be behind the fatal kidnapping of four U.S. citizens.

The FBI has confirmed that cartel gunmen shot and kidnapped four U.S. citizens in the border city of Matamoros on Friday. Mexican authorities are minimizing the case by claiming that an innocent bystander was the only victim of the shooting.

A group of Gulf Cartel gunmen clashed with a group of rivals in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Following the shootout, gunmen were seen taking the bodies of some of the dead. The intensity of the shootout and the expectation of future violence led government officials to cancel school activities for the rest of the day.

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the country’s top diplomat, celebrated India’s friendly relationships with all major powers in an interview Tuesday – markedly omitting China and emphasizing that tension between the two countries is growing because China has repeatedly violated India’s border.

Mexican authorities arrested a drug lord who is listed as one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives for his alleged role in ordering the murder of a government informant in a Dallas suburb. On Saturday afternoon Mexican authorities arrested Jose Rodolfo “El Gato” Villarreal, in Mexico City, information released by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) revealed.

Dueños de restaurantes en Tijuana aseguran ser blanco de amenazas y extorsiones por parte del crimen organizado en la ciudad fronteriza de Tijuana.

A group of cartel gunmen dumped a severed human head inside an ice chest in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The case is the second of its kind in two days as rival drug cartels fight for control of local smuggling routes to Texas.

Un grupo de sicarios dejaron una cabeza humana dentro de una hielera en el estado fronterizo mexicano de Nuevo León. El caso es el segundo de su tipo en dos días, ya que los cárteles de la droga continúan su lucha por el control de los mercados locales de drogas y las rutas a Texas.

A group of gunmen with a faction of Los Zetas dumped two ice chests with severed human body parts. The gunmen left a message threatening local drug distributors in the border state of Nuevo Leon.

Un grupo de sicarios de una facción de Los Zetas dejó dos hieleras con partes de un cuerpo humano y un mensaje amenazando a los distribuidores locales de drogas en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León.

The Indian government’s Border Roads Organization (BRO) announced a “major infrastructural development” project this week in Arunachal Pradesh, a mountainous border region on the other side of occupied Tibet where Chinese soldiers brawled with Indian border patrol just weeks ago.

China announced on Sunday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staged “a series of tactical drills” in occupied Tibet, forcing soldiers to endure “an altitude of 4,600 meters under the harsh cold of -20 C [-4ºF]” to enhance combat capability on the Indian border.

A Mexican family out gathering wood found a severed human head that unknown individuals left in a field in the border state of Tamaulipas. The gory discovery took place over the weekend in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, as a father and