GOMEZ FARIAS, Tamaulipas — Human rights activists searching for cartel victims found an extermination field used by Los Zetas to bury and incinerate at least 500 near a UNESCO-protected ecological biosphere.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexican authorities are trying to downplay the kidnapping of a Spanish woman by cartel gunmen in Tamaulipas. The victim’s relatives are now going public with their grievances.
Gunmen from the Los Zetas cartel who broke out of the state prison in Tamaulipas traveled to this border state to push drugs and carry out ransom kidnappings.
Sicarios conectados al cartel de los Zetas los cuales se fugaron de un penal en Tamaulipas han estado llegando a este estado fronterizo para llevar acabo secuestros y trafico de drogas.
After years of living in fear from a Mexican drug cartel responsible for countless horrors, residents in the border city of Piedras Negras are no longer afraid to call out politicians with family ties to those criminal organizations.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Una mujer estuvo a punto de perder la vida tras ser torturada a golpes y quemada antes de ser abandonada en una brecha de este estado fronterizo.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — State police officers were able to rescue a local notary public who had been kidnapped earlier this week and arrested one of the kidnappers.
SAN FERNANDO, Tamaulipas — Criminales fuertemente armados continúan asaltando y secuestrando automovilistas que transitan por las carreteras de este estado que conectan las zonas fronterizas con el resto del país. En uno de los casos mas recientes, un grupo de sicarios ataco a un matrimonio cerca de esta ciudad y secuestro al conductor del vehículo.
SAN FERNANDO, Tamaulipas — Heavily armed criminals continue robbing and kidnapping unsuspecting motorists that travel along the state highways that connect the border region with the rest of the country. In one of the most recent cases, a group of gunmen attacked a married couple near this city.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — One of the key leaders with Los Zetas cartel has been arrested in this border state as part of an ongoing investigation into kidnappings and murders in this city. The man known as Comandante Cano has been singled out as one of the individuals primarily responsible for the ongoing wave of violence in the state.
The continuing cartel violence that has taken hold of this state took a disturbing twist when cartel gunmen added a Christmas flavor by leaving the body of one of their latest beheading victims next to a banner saying “Merry Christmas.”
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — At least three passengers were taken off a bus at gunpoint by members of the Los Zetas cartel in this border city’s downtown area. The occurred in front of Mexican law enforcement buildings. The passengers have not been found.
Autoridades mexicanas mataron a dos pistoleros del cártel durante un enfrentamiento en esta comunidad rural cerca de la frontera de Texas. Después del enfrentamiento, las autoridades encontraron a dos víctimas de secuestro dentro de la cajuela de dos vehículos.
Mexican authorities killed two cartel gunmen during a clash in this rural community near the Texas border. After the clash, authorities found two kidnapping victims inside the trunk of two vehicles.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — More than two years after their kidnapping, Mexican authorities have placed billboards offering a cash reward for any information that could lead to missing individuals.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — Las balas comenzaron a escucharse y los vecinos temerosos buscaron refugio al enterarse en las redes sociales que un grupo armado de Los Zetas dedicado al secuestro se enfrentaban con la policía del municipio de San Nicolás de los Garza, un suburbio de la capital industrial.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Médicos en esta ciudad fronteriza se han visto obligados a cambiar sus rutinas y seguir varios protocolos de seguridad luego de que miembros del cártel han comenzado a buscarlos para secuestro.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Doctors have been forced to change their routines and follow various security protocols after cartel members have begun targeting them for kidnapping.
A raid on a cartel stash house led to a fierce gun battle where three gunmen were killed. Authorities found the bodies of three recently executed victims inside the house. Cartel kidnappings and gun battles continue to take place on a regular basis in this border state.
A commercial truck driver from the border city of Eagle Pass was murdered in this border city setting off an investigation that continues to puzzle local authorities. The truck driver has beed reported missing in Texas days prior to the discovery of his body in Mexico.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Funcionarios del gobierno de este estado fronterizo confirmaron que sicarios secuestraron a 15 personas de un autobús de pasajeros que se dirigía desde Tamaulipas a Coahuila. El gobierno de Tamaulipas se mantiene en silencio mientras que el destino de los 15 pasajeros sigue siendo desconocido.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The ongoing cartel war between factions of the Los Zetas continues to bring terror, murders and kidnappings to this city. The fear brought by this wave of crime has been worsened by the silence on the part of Mexican authorities.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Gunmen with the Gulf Cartel interrogated and executed five members of a gang that carried out robberies and extortion in the border city.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Gunmen with the Los Zetas cartel have issued a warning to the general public telling them to avoid staying out late and going to nightclubs as violence threatens to take over the border city.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Gunmen with the Los Zetas cartel tried to ambush a convoy of Mexican soldiers and police officers less than 60 miles south of the Texas border. The trucks used by the cartel gunmen had messages of love spray painted on them.
The raging civil war that has taken over this city appears to have no end. In the most recent bouts of violence, cartel gunmen have dumped a dismembered body and continued with their executions and threats.
A group of cartel gunmen in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have kidnapped a top football player from the Greek soccer team Olimpyakos. The soccer player had been visiting friends and family in the area.
Seeking to distance themselves from the wave of kidnappings that has tormented this city, heavily armed cartel assassins claiming to be part of the Gulf Cartel questioned a cell of alleged kidnappers about their activities and then shot them while their cameras were rolling.
