U.S. consular officials are warning travelers about the high risk of carjackings by cartel gunmen on the highways leading north to the Texas border. Just hours after issuing that warning, a group of cartel gunmen shot two men from Mexico who were heading to Texas to take advantage of the Black Friday specials.
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.
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.
Mexican authorities extradited the two supreme leaders of Los Zetas just hours before that country’s security cabinet was set to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his staff.
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.
The man responsible for establishing a reign of terror in part of Mexico’s northern border region pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking and money laundering charges in a U.S. federal court. He is facing a possible life term in prison. That cartel boss is not only responsible for ordering hundreds of forced disappearances and establishing clandestine gravesites in northern Mexico but his gunmen are directly linked to a brazen attack on the U.S. Consulate building in Nuevo Laredo.
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.
Una de las cadenas de tiendas de conveniencia más grandes de México ha cerrado todas sus sucursales en la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo luego de una serie de amenazas de la organización terrorista Cártel del Noreste, facción de Los Zetas. El cierre masivo de casi 200 tiendas se produce en un momento en que el gobierno de Tamaulipas sigue siendo impotente contra los diversos cárteles de la droga que gobiernan el estado.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for help in locating an Arizona teenage female and her mother who are believed to have been kidnapped while traveling in northern Mexico. The kidnapping is believed to have occurred along a stretch of highway where the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas has abducted dozens of innocent victims who have never been heard from again.
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
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.
Government officials announced the investigation into the alleged extra-judicial killing of five cartel gunmen at the hands of a group of Mexican soldiers. The killings allegedly took place in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
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.
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.
FBI agents teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican military officials to rescue a U.S. citizen being held by kidnappers in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Nuevo Laredo is the headquarters for Los Zetas Cartel, also known as CDN. The rescue effort led to the recovery of 14 others being held against their will by the cartel.
Mexican military forces killed a total of 16 gunmen from a faction of Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The gunmen wore cloned military uniforms and were part of a paramilitary cartel force known as Hell’s Troop or Tropa Del Infierno.
Mexican Army soldiers killed seven Los Zetas gunmen who had set up an ambush attack. Two of the gunmen were the personal bodyguards of a regional cartel boss. The shootout is the latest bout of violence in the border city of Nuevo Laredo where the criminal organization has historically set their base of operations.
Agentes de la policía estatal en la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo están en alerta máxima después de que un oficial comenzó a mostrar síntomas que pudieran ser del coronavirus (COVID-19). Ese oficial fue puesto en cuarentena mientras se realizan los estudios correspondientes.
State police officers in the border city of Nuevo Laredo are on high alert after one officer began to show coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms. Officials placed that officer under quarantine while testing takes place.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Una familia de cuatro, incluyendo dos niñas pequeñas, murieron por fuego cruzado luego de quedar atrapadas en una feroz batalla armada donde sicarios intentaban emboscar a un convoy de tropas de la Marina mexicana. Los combates también provocaron la muerte de un marino mexicano y que otros 12 marinos fueran heridos de gravedad; las autoridades lograron matar a cuatro de los sicarios.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — A family of four, including two young girls, died after getting caught in the crossfire of a fierce battle as cartel gunmen tried to ambush a Mexican Marine convoy. The incident also led to one marine dying with 12 others seriously injured. Authorities managed to kill four attackers.
A Mexican woman has been sent to prison for her role in the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Texas who were then taken to Mexico for ransom. Five cartel gunmen ambushed their victims outside of a restaurant in Laredo, Texas, during the kidnapping. The woman had been providing information on the victims.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Presuntos narcotraficantes que pertenecen al Cartel del Noreste fueron sorprendidos y detenidos por soldados mexicanos en los momentos en que bajaban un cargamento de mas de 600 kilos de marihuana que recién les había llegado.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Suspected smugglers with the Cartel Del Noreste, the main faction of Los Zetas, were caught by Mexican soldiers as they were in the process of unloading a new shipment of more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana that they had just received.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Mayor Enrique Rivas was forced to dive for cover after cartel gunmen opened automatic fire in a clash yards away from a public event. While the mayor was not a target, military forces moved him as a security precaution.
El gobierno del estado de Tamaulipas ha intensificado sus esfuerzos en la investigación de un periodista asesinado en la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo ofreciendo una recompensa en efectivo por cualquier información que conduzca a las personas que están detrás de ello. La organización criminal conocida como Cártel Del Noreste tiene un control férreo en esa ciudad y ha logrado sofocar a los medios locales.
The state government of Tamaulipas stepped up efforts in the investigation of a murdered journalist in Nuevo Laredo by offering a cash reward for information. The criminal organization known as Cartel Del Noreste has an iron grip in that city and has managed to muzzle local media.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Los medios de esta ciudad fronteriza sufrieron la denominada ley mordaza en sus publicaciones ante el asesinato de un respetado periodista este fin de semana. La orden de no reportar sobre el homicidio ni hacer protestas o llamar la atención al caso vino de parte del cartel que domina esta ciudad.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Media outlets are being kept from covering the murder of a respected journalist killed over the weekend. The order to prohibit reporting and protests about the matter came from the criminal organization controlling this city.
Mexican Marines arrested the heiress to what is left of one of the factions of the Los Zetas Cartel. Prosecutors charged the woman with the murder of five state law enforcement officials who were killed in this border city. One of her alleged victims served as the highest ranking prosecutor in the border region.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – La hermana de los dos principales jefes de Los Zetas en México ha sido arrestada en esta ciudad fronteriza en relación con el secuestro de un empresario local.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — The sister of the two top Los Zetas bosses in Mexico was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a local businessman.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — El cartel que controla esta ciudad fronteriza continua secuestrando víctimas para cobrar fuertes cantidades por su rescate.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — The cartel in control of this border city continues to kidnap victims and demand high ransoms for their release.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Nueve cuerpos apilados, con huellas de tortura y ejecutados con arma de fuego, fueron abandonados en las afueras de un domicilio que se ubica a unas cuantas calles de la frontera con Texas.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen dumped nine tortured bodies outside of a home a few blocks from this city’s border with Texas.