Cartel Kidnappings - Page 2

Authorities are looking into the kidnapping of a high-ranking Catholic Church bishop in Mexico. The case has drawn widespread outrage since the cleric made headlines by trying to broker a peace of sorts between rival cartels who were fighting a fierce turf war in his community.

Mexico’s government continues to suppress information about the raging cartel violence that plagues one of its main border cities. The lack of information is further worsened by a gag order of sorts placed by organized crime on local news outlets in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

The criminal terrorist organization known as Cartel Del Noreste, a faction of Los Zetas, is behind the mass kidnappings of victims in a Mexican border state, sources revealed to Breitbart Texas. However, instead of limiting itself to people who have ties or debts to trafficking, the cartel adopted the tactic of taking entire families hostage.

La organización criminal terrorista conocida como Cartel Del Noreste, facción de Los Zetas, está detrás de los secuestros masivos de víctimas en un estado fronterizo mexicano, fuentes revelaron a Breitbart Texas. Sin embargo, en lugar de limitarse a personas que

Politicians in the Mexican state of Sinaloa are trying to downplay the violent weekend kidnapping of more than 60 victims by cartel armies. The mass kidnapping points to an apparent rift within the Sinaloa Cartel.

Russian diplomats in Mexico City pressured Mexican authorities and went public with the news that one of their citizens suffered a kidnapping while traveling to the border city of Reynosa. As in prior kidnappings, the Tamaulipas government has tried to take credit for rescuing the victim, while in reality, it was the Gulf Cartel that just released her.

Mexican state authorities arrested a top leader within the Gulf Cartel who is ultimately responsible for the 2023 kidnapping of four U.S. citizens, where two of them died, last year in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. That cartel boss has been directly responsible for the spread of violence in the northern part of Tamaulipas but managed to avoid capture for a long time due to his ties to the top government officials.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was forced to admit that the Gulf Cartel released a group of 32 kidnapped migrants — dismissing previous government claims that police and military forces had rescued the group. The statements by Lopez Obrador confirm details first published by Breitbart Texas, revealing that officials with the Tamaulipas government and the federal government had tried to take credit for the release of the migrants.

Mexican authorities are trying to take credit for rescuing 31 migrants that the Gul Carte kidnapped last weekend. In reality, the criminal organization dropped them off at a shopping center so authorities could find them. The “rescue” follows days of negative press at the national level in Mexico, causing tension and pressure within the administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Mexican authorities announced the rescue of five Venezuelan migrants who were kidnapped as part of a group of 31 passengers riding a bus in the border state of Tamaulipas. Cartel gunmen from the Gulf Cartel boarded a bus and kidnapped the migrants.

A leading figure with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas is facing a possible sentence of life in prison for his role in planning and ordering the kidnapping and murder of people in Texas. For the kidnappings, the cartel had sent hitmen from Mexico into Laredo, Texas, and provided the gunmen with weapons.

Mexican troops rescued a Texas woman after cartel gunmen had kidnapped her during a cross-country drive toward Belize. The kidnapping comes as the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas continues to be one of the most dangerous places in Mexico.

A lifelong rancher in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas fought off a group of cartel gunmen who tried to kidnap him from his home. The case highlights criminal organizations’ control in Mexico due to the complicity of government officials.

Mexican authorities in the cartel-controlled state of Zacatecas are trying to downplay the abduction of a Colombian family who are believed to have been taken by gunmen. Through the use of semantics and word games, government officials are hiding the raging cartel violence in Zacatecas.

The owner of a Mexican news outlet remains behind bars awaiting trial for her alleged role in the kidnapping by cartel gunmen of a journalist from another outlet.

Gunmen from one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels released a local mayor they kidnapped last week. Mexican authorities did not rescue the politician, but the cartel gunmen released her, and she has since returned to her town with a large security detail.

Three Mexican municipal police officers are behind bars as part of an investigation into the abduction of three people who went missing after a traffic stop. The incident took place in the western state of Michoacan.

Authorities in Mexico City rescued four Iranian citizens and two Ecuadoran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held for ransom. The incident comes as Mexico continues to see a record-setting number of migrants making their way to the U.S. border.

Cartel gunmen in Mexico kidnapped a man in broad daylight in the middle of a busy city street. The brazen kidnapping in the state of Jalisco comes just days after Cartel Jalisco New Generation carried out a terrorist attack that killed six police officers and injured a dozen others in the same city.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed the apparent kidnapping of three journalists in the state of Nayarit. Police found one of the victims murdered over the weekend. While the cases appear unrelated, the common denominator is the victims are all journalists, authorities revealed.

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.

La organización narcoterrorista conocida como Cartel del Golfo secuestró a tres trabajadores inocentes después de confundirlos con rivales. El caso se volvió fatal cuando una de las víctimas del secuestro murió en un accidente automovilístico junto con dos sicarios mientras los llevaban a otra parte.

A large group of cartel gunmen stopped a bus filled with police officers and administrators in southern Mexico. The gunmen loaded them into a cargo truck and escaped with complete impunity. 

Authorities in the Mexican border state of Sonora revealed that a cartel-connected human smuggling network recorded videos showing the beating of migrants with a paddle in an effort to extort their loved ones. Sonora is the same Mexican border state where the Sinaloa Cartel made headlines for using a paddle to torture local food vendors and small business owners as part of an extortion scheme.

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.

A mass kidnapping in Mexico that led to the murder of a U.S. citizen from Arizona is believed to be linked to a cartel fraud operation based out of a call center in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

Authorities in Mexico discovered dozens of bags filled with human remains in various locations while searching for seven workers from a call center that went missing in the state of Jalisco. One of the seven missing workers is a U.S. citizen from Arizona.

A group of Gulf Cartel gunmen kidnapped five tourists from the United States who were driving across the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Mexican authorities managed to rescue the tourists on the same day and over the weekend recovered the vehicles the victims were driving, including a Lamborghini Urus.

Mexico’s top security official revealed that a mass kidnapping in the state of Jalisco is possibly tied to criminal activities carried out at a call center. One of the now seven victims that are reported missing is a U.S. citizen from Arizona.

Authorities are searching for four men and a woman who went missing on their way to work this week in the Mexican state of Jalisco. One of the missing individuals is a U.S. citizen who was born in Arizona.

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.

The recent kidnapping of two teenagers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas revealed the use of cloned police vehicles and uniforms by Gulf Cartel gunmen to carry out enforcement operations. The gunmen impersonated members of Mexico’s National Guard.

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.

A woman from South Texas who traveled to Mexico to visit relatives during Easter became the latest victim of murder in the border state of Nuevo Leon. After being missing for several days, authorities confirmed the discovery of her body on a ranch in that border state.

The various cartels operating in central and western Mexico continue to carry out numerous kidnappings as a way to exert their control over key highways that connect Mexico City with border cities.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed the kidnapping of two separate groups of travelers who were making their way from Central Mexico to a border state in passenger vans. The two mass kidnapping cases come almost at the same time as one of Mexico’s busiest tourist seasons. To enhance safety, government officials announced the deployment of thousands of police officers and troops to patrol the nation’s highways.