Gunmen with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas wounded two Mexican police officers during an ambush-style attack. The attack is the third of its kind since Thursday, as police and military forces attempt to hold back the CDN-Los Zetas from setting up operations in Coahuila. The CDN-Los Zetas is one of six Mexican cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.
The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas carried out two ambush-style attacks on Mexican military forces just south of the Texas border. In one of those attacks, cartel gunmen allegedly tried to kidnap two soldiers. The CDN-Los Zetas is one of six Mexican cartels designated as foreign terrorist groups by the U.S. government.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned three top Los Zetas leaders, as well as a recording artist who not only praised them in his songs but was also allegedly using the music business to launder funds for the criminal organization. One of the newly sanctioned leaders is a former Tamaulipas state police officer who secretly worked as a cartel boss while carrying a badge.
Cartel gunmen used a dump truck to conceal an attack on state police forces by moving the vehicle at a high rate of speed straight into an armored police truck with five officers inside. The crash killed two officers and injured three others.
The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued an alert over a series of kidnappings along certain Mexican border highways. The warning follows the actions by teams of gunmen who abducted at least ten people in at least three separate cases in recent days. It remains unclear if other similar cases have not been reported.
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.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the targeting of two key leaders of the terrorist organization known as the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The move freezes all properties and assets of those two individuals and prohibits any U.S. company or individual from doing business with them.
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.
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.
The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas sent a team of hitmen from Mexico into the Texas border city of Laredo to kill a man who had allegedly stolen drugs from them. Court documents revealed that the top leadership of the cartel gave the order, and the hitmen were told to “leave no witnesses.”
La facción Cártel del Noreste de Los Zetas envió un equipo de sicarios desde México a la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo para asesinar a un hombre que presuntamente les había robado drogas. Documentos judiciales relacionados con el caso revelaron que la orden fue dada por la cúpula del cártel, y que se les indicó a los sicarios que “no dejaran testigos”.
A member of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas who was living illegally in the border city of Laredo received a five-year, three-month prison sentence for illegally buying ammunition in large quantities. The ammo was eventually going to be smuggled to Mexico.
Una de las organizaciones criminales más violentas, que ha sido vinculada a miles de desapariciones forzadas en México, ha hecho un video en el que afirman que no atacan a civiles y piden a la comunidad que continúe con su vida diaria. El video llega en un momento en que existe una intensa presión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para no solo para etiquetar a los cárteles hiperviolentos como grupos terroristas, sino para erradicarlos.
Authorities in Mexico arrested a top leader of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The arrest comes as that criminal organization has been linked to numerous disappearances and mass killings with considerable impunity.
One of Mexico’s largest chains of convenience stores closed all of its locations in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, following a series of threats from the terrorist organization Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The mass closing of almost 200 stores comes as the Tamaulipas government remains impotent against the various drug cartels that rule over the state.
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
After days of not hearing from their loved one, family members identified the body of a teenager who had just turned 17. The teen was found after several days spent in a city morgue following a shootout with authorities in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. The teen was one of two gunmen killed when a large number of gunmen tried to enter the region.
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.
Dozens of families took part in a narco-exodus by fleeing their homes in northern Mexico. The families fled after Mexican authorities were unable to stop the cartel violence that plagued parts of Tamaulipas.
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.
A large-scale raid by Mexican authorities prompted U.S. consular officials to issue a shelter-in-place notice warning the public of possible blockades and shootouts in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The capture was touted by Mexican authorities as a heavy blow to the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas which has a long history of operating with complete impunity and with the protection of corrupt government officials.
A Texas Department of Public Safety drone captured video of a major gun battle in Mexico between warring cartels.
Groups of cartel gunmen set up blockades while simultaneously fighting authorities in various parts of the border state of Nuevo Leon. The gunmen caused chaos along a series of important highways. The generalized violence comes just days after gunmen dumped 12 dismembered bodies in that state with banners threatening rival cartels.
One of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels spread terror in the border state of Nuevo Leon after dumping 12 dismembered bodies in various locations. The gory crime scenes come as Mexico’s government has been unable to stop the raging violence throughout the region. The drug cartels fight for control of lucrative trafficking routes and the local narcotics market.
Cartel gunmen continued large-scale shootouts around the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, despite the efforts of government officials to deny the violence or minimize its horrors.
Cartel gunmen injured nine Mexican police officers and killed two others in an ongoing wave of attacks in the state of Coahuila just south of the Texas border. Since the weekend, gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas have carried out at least seven attacks on law enforcement.
Un grupo de narcoterroristas atacó un puesto de control policial en el estado fronterizo mexicano de Coahuila, desatando un fuerte enfrentamiento. En un lapso de cinco días, sicarios del cártel han llevado a cabo cuatro ataques contra las fuerzas policiales, el último de los cuales tuvo lugar el martes por la mañana.
A group of cartel terrorists attacked a Mexican police checkpoint in the border state of Coahuila, setting off a fierce shootout. In a span of five days, cartel gunmen carried out four separate attacks on police forces, with the latest taking place on Tuesday morning.
A group of cartel gunmen left a five-month-old boy inside a church after they tortured and killed his parents in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The killing of the parents and four others is attributed to the hyperviolent Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.
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.
Mexican military forces arrested a top lieutenant with Los Zetas who is linked to numerous killings in northern Mexico. He is also connected to a 2008 terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Mexico. Breitbart Texas first reported on this cartel lieutenant in 2018 after his secretive release from prison under suspicious circumstances.
One of the cartel gunmen allegedly killed by Mexican Army soldiers after surrendering in a city near the Texas-Mexico border was a migrant from Honduras. The migrant reportedly traveled in one of the caravans of 2019 and then joined the ranks of organized crime.
Department of Public Safety troopers working the border region near Fronton, Texas, encountered a group of armed migrants. The troopers seized two tactical rifles found in the possession of the migrants.
While the governor in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas claims his state is safe, large-scale shootouts involving cartel paramilitary forces and Mexican authorities continue to spread terror among locals. Due to the intensity of one of those shootouts in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, the city’s mayor was forced to send out social media warnings asking the public to shelter in place. Surprisingly, the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, which had been diligent in issuing warnings of shootouts in the city, remained silent during the clashes.
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.
New revelations dealing with a series of shootouts in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon sparked outrage after it became known that cartel gunmen, including a Honduran migrant, killed an 85-year-old rancher for no apparent reason.
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.
A raging cartel turf war spread terror throughout the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Rival criminal organizations form various alliances, often turning on each other while fighting for control of lucrative routes to border states to the north.
