A new report by a human rights activist from Mexico tries to shed light light on how Los Zetas carried out two high-profile massacres in Mexico with almost complete impunity. The activist’s work confirms a three-month investigation by Breitbart Texas into the extermination and incineration of 300 victims in northern Mexico.
A team of gunmen stormed a local tire shop in this border city where they gunned down the owner and managed to make a clean getaway. The murder appears to continue a spike in violence that has already led to 15 murders in this small border city alone.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — One soldier died after a fierce gun battle between the Los Zetas Cartel and Mexican military.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Two cartel gunmen killed a young woman as she walked out of a local restaurant. The assassins switched vehicles as they made their escape.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities have arrested a cartel gunman believed to have been behind the execution of a young couple near the Texas border. That murder has since been tied to drug cartel activity.
One of the top leaders of the Los Zetas cartel recently caught in Houston now stands accused of moving large quantities of drugs and laundering the proceeds.
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.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — La guerra que llevan acabo facciones rivales del Cartel de Los Zetas ha desatado una ola de violencia imparable la cual sigue dejando muerte y terror. Esta semana la violencia tuvo un repunte con un siete ejecuciones y una balacera que mato a seis mas todos en menos de 24 horas.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The war between two rival factions of the Los Zetas Cartel has set off an unstoppable wave of violence that continues to spread death and terror. This week, the violence spiked with seven executions and a gun battle that killed six others in a span of less than 24 hours.
Authorities have arrested one the top leaders of the Los Zetas who had been hiding out in Houston. The capture comes as the cartel continues to undergo a fierce internal civil war that has spread violence throughout the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — A recently leaked video revealed the moment when cartel gunmen set fire to a gas station in the latest example of the lawlessness that local residents from this border state continue to report.
El secuestro de un niño estadounidense de 7 años por tres hombres encapuchados desató un mega-operativo un operativo de rescate donde participaron agentes varias dependencias estatales y locales al igual que se tuvo coordinación con el FBI y personal de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Nuevo León.
The kidnapping of a seven-year-old U.S. citizen by three gunmen set off a large scale rescue operation. The search was carried out by Mexican state and local law enforcement officials who coordinated with the FBI and personnel from the U.S. Embassy. The child was later found safe and unharmed.
Authorities continue to investigate why a group of gunmen executed a young couple on the banks of the Rio Grande River and set their vehicle on fire.
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.
CIUDAD ACUNA, Coahuila — The mayor of this border city has been named in a cartel message as one of the individuals that allegedly provides protection to a faction of the Los Zetas cartel.
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.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Government officials from this border state have confirmed that cartel gunmen hijacked and kidnapped 15 passengers from bus that was headed from Tamaulipas to Coahuila. While the Tamaulipas government remains silent, the fate of the sequestered remains unknown.
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.
A suspected illegal immigrant is believed to have stolen a car at gunpoint in the border city Rio Bravo, Texas before fleeing the area.
LAREDO, Texas — A man from a Texas border city was able to illegally cross into Mexico where he was shot and then cross back to seek medical attention. The bizarre incident highlights the lack of local border enforcement.
Latin American transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), including Mexican drug cartels, are paying Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah a “tax” to move people, narcotics, weapons and other contraband in and out out of the Western Hemisphere, an expert on Iranian influence in the region tells Breitbart News.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — Autoridades en este estado fronterizo han pospuesto reforzar la seguridad en las carreteras y zonas rurales del norte que colindan con la zona de guerra conocida como Tamaulipas aludiendo a la falta de elementos. El refuerzo tardara hasta que se termine de preparar mas fuerzas policiacas.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Authorities in this border state have postponed sending security reinforcements to the highways and rural areas adjacent to the war zone known as Tamaulipas. The reduction in security will allegedly take place until authorities are able to train additional police forces.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — The latest wave of violence to overtake this city has killed an innocent woman and 10 cartel gunmen during two separate shootouts.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Seven vehicles with gunmen clashed with Mexican military forces during a fierce battle in the the downtown streets of this border city. The skirmish took place mere blocks from the border with Texas.
The fighting occurred Thursday, shortly after 1030 a.m. in the downtown area near the intersection of Guerrero Avenue and Arteaga Street when a convoy of seven vehicles with members of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of the Los Zetas cartel clashed with Mexican military forces that had set up a roadblock of sorts, Mexican law enforcement sources confirmed to Breitbart Texas.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The recent capture of a regional Zeta boss after his own men turned him in, points to an escalation of violence in the various cities of this border state that have become the battleground for a civil war within the Los Zetas drug cartel.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Cartel kidnappings and murders continue to touch well known families in this northern city that sits immediately across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas–bringing a layer of uncertainty and concern to a society that has seen much crime and violence in previous years.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — The fight for control of this border city continues not only in the streets but also on social media as rival cartel factions continue to share graphic execution photos and ominous warnings to their rivals.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The Mexican government has remained silent in the days after a group of cartel gunmen shot and incinerated three of their rivals.
Authorities in San Antonio found a headless body burning inside of a trash dumpster near an apartment complex on the city’s east side. The gory discovery raises serious questions as to the murder having been yet another cartel decapitation in Texas.
Federal authorities have arrested 24 members of a Los Zetas-tied drug trafficking group that operated on the Texas side of the border moving large quantities of narcotics and cash.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades de este estado fronterizo continúan buscando respuestas en cuanto al lugar de descanso final de cientos de víctimas que fueron secuestrados y probablemente incinerados por miembros del cártel de Los Zetas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue searching for answers as to the final resting place of hundreds of victims that were kidnapped and likely incinerated by members of the Los Zetas drug cartel.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border city continue to look into the reasons why a woman was gunned down in front of her boyfriend and their young daughter. The family had been sleeping in their home in the Villa de Fuente neighborhood when a gunman fired through the window shooting at them.
NUEVO LAREDO – La guerra civil dentro del cártel de Los Zetas ha resultado en la fragmentación de grupos dentro de las facciones rivales y en más asesinatos sólo a metros de la frontera de Texas.
NUEVO LAREDO — The ongoing civil war within the Los Zetas drug cartel has resulted in the splintering of groups within the rival factions and more murders just yards from the Texas border.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen have once again been using cloned military vehicles in an effort to further disguise their criminal activities in this city and other municipalities along the Texas border.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Autoridades mexicanas detuvieron a uno de los líderes dentro de la estructura del cártel de Los Zetas. La detención se produjo mientras la organización criminal lleva a cabo una terrible guerra civil que ha extendido la violencia de los cárteles por varios estados de la frontera.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Mexican authorities have arrested one of the top leaders within the Los Zetas cartel structure. The arrest came as the criminal organization is undergoing through a fierce civil war that has spread cartel violence through several border states.