At least four rifles seized in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas during cartel arrests are allegedly linked to the U.S. Department of State. A report by Mexico’s El Debate revealed that the rifles were part of various weapons seized during several cartel raids since late 2004.
At least eight state police officers from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas are under investigation for the alleged kidnapping of a local businessman who was forced to pay a ransom for his release.
Mexican federal authorities re-arrested a top cartel boss who used his political connections and social activism to hide his criminal empire. The cartel figure was arrested in 2022, but with the help of state officials, was able to be released from prison until his capture this weekend.
Dozens of residents in the cartel-controlled city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, took a high risk by holding a protest, blocking one of the area’s main avenues, and asking to be able to live in peace. The protest follows an attack by gunmen from the Gulf Cartel that led to the murder of two innocent citizens with complete impunity, while the Tamaulipas government claims that the state is one of the safest in the nation.
Two Mexican federal judges are facing suspension and were forcibly removed from their offices. The judges are the target of an internal judicial investigation for a series of rulings that protected a fugitive former Mexican governor from extradition, who is currently wanted on money laundering charges in Texas.
Due to the widespread corruption and cartel infiltration in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican military forces kept local and state authorities out of the loop in a recent operation targeting a commander with the Gulf Cartel. The raid took
A Mexican border city issued a series of alerts to its residents, warning them to avoid going out at night and to limit outings following a series of terrorist attacks by cartel gunmen who used drones to drop explosive devices against police forces.
Police in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas are ignoring innocent cartel victims and not responding to the scenes of attacks. This new development allows cartel gunmen to attack innocent victims with complete impunity while government officials claim that crime is decreasing in the cartel-controlled state.
Travelers in the border state of Tamaulipas are sounding the alarm about a police checkpoint that state investigators are allegedly setting up to collect extortion, and where at least three victims have been abducted and turned over to Gulf Cartel gunmen. The gunmen reportedly tortured the victims while demanding ransom.
The Gulf Cartel continues to terrorize the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas despite the government’s claims of cracking down on drug cartels. The Gulf Cartel is labelled as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
Mexican authorities arrested the son of a late Gulf Cartel top boss who was known for extreme violence and his use of a paramilitary force known as the Escorpiones. The arrest comes at a time when Mexico’s government has been under extreme pressure from the U.S. government for not doing enough to fight drug cartels.
A recently extradited cartel boss from Mexico, who is facing numerous federal drug trafficking charges in Virginia, was a favored government contractor in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The state is controlled by the controversial governor from the MORENA party, Americo Villarreal.
A group of activists who search for mass graves and cartel abduction victims reported the discovery of a killing field and incineration site that was being used once again by the Gulf Cartel to murder and dispose of their victims. The killing site is just a short distance from the Texas border and an international port of entry, and had been previously discovered in 2024 before the Gulf Cartel began using it again.
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A state judge in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas ordered the release of a female underboss with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The woman is accused of ordering the murder of a top state prosecutor and four of his staffers in 2017.
A squad of gunmen believed to be with the Gulf Cartel shot and killed a top Mexican federal prosecutor during a brazen attack in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The attackers used grenades and automatic weapons. The gunmen managed to escape with complete impunity as Mexican government officials try to claim the region is safe and work to contain the public opinion fallout.
Mexican authorities are working to protect top political operators within the country’s ruling party to keep them from being named or prosecuted in connection with a cartel-connected fuel theft ring that operates in the northern part of the country.
The Gulf Cartel killed a Mexican activist just days after a judge removed his police protection that was previously granted after the same cartel had kidnapped him four times before and threatened to kill him. The Gulf Cartel is one of six Mexican organized crime groups designated by the Trump administration as foreign terrorist organizations.
Officials in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have announced that they will be requesting a federal investigation into SpaceX for polluting Mexican beaches after pieces of the company’s rockets have washed ashore in recent days.
Gunmen with the Gulf Cartel are believed to be responsible for a series of attacks just days after authorities arrested a regional leader from that criminal organization.
A group of cartel gunmen abducted, murdered, and incinerated a group of musicians in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Desperate relatives held protests, vigils, and even blocked access to international ports of entry in an attempt to get government officials to act and not ignore the case, like the thousands of missing persons cases that have been taking place throughout the state of Tamaulipas in recent years.
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.
Con casi total impunidad, el Cártel del Golfo en Tamaulipas ha logrado expandir su control hasta el punto de operar como un gobierno alternativo en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros. Gracias a este control, todos los negocios, incluyendo vendedores de comida, florerías e incluso personas que piden dinero en la calle, deben pagar una cuota semanal de protección al Cártel del Golfo, quien opera una enorme base de datos del comercio de la ciudad e incluso utiliza a funcionarios municipales para recaudar los fondos.
A Mexican politician who was recently deported after spending time in a U.S. federal prison is now behind bars in Mexico. The former governor of Tamaulipas is facing new charges tied to his support for drug cartels. The Mexican government spent years protecting the politician.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas remain tight-lipped about the recent rescue of 21 victims who had been abducted by cartel gunmen and were apparently in the process of being conscripted into the criminal organization. Government officials have been actively trying to cover up the mass kidnapping and rescue while claiming that the region is safe.
A group of gunmen kidnapped and killed a Texas man who had crossed into the Mexican border city of Reynosa to pay real estate taxes on some property he owed there.
The terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel has once again killed an innocent victim who was caught in the middle of a shootout. The fatal shooting comes just days after terrorist Gulf Cartel gunmen shot and killed a woman and her two young grandchildren as they slept inside their house while rival gunmen clashed outside.
La organización terrorista conocida como el Cártel del Golfo ha vuelto a matar a una víctima inocente que quedó atrapada en medio de un tiroteo. El tiroteo fatal se produce pocos días después de que otros terroristas del Cártel del Golfo dispararan y mataran a una mujer y a sus dos nietos pequeños mientras dormían dentro de su casa mientras que afuera pistoleros rivales se estaban enfrentando.
Las organizaciones terroristas que operan con impunidad en el estado fronterizo mexicano de Tamaulipas siguen utilizando narco-minas para enfrentar a sus rivales, a pesar de que ya han matado a varias víctimas inocentes con ellas, incluido un ciudadano estadounidense.
Gunmen from the foreign terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel killed a woman and her two young grandchildren as they slept inside their home in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The gunmen were clashing with a group of rivals and appeared to have shot into multiple dwellings.
Sicarios de la organización terrorista conocida como el Cártel del Golfo mataron a una mujer y a sus dos nietos pequeños mientras dormían dentro de su casa en la ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa. Los pistoleros se enfrentaban con un grupo de rivales y aparentemente dispararon contra varias casas.
Mexico’s top security official announced the arrest of a recently promoted member of the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN)faction of Los Zetas. The announcement came just moments after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with U.S. President Donald J. Trump about border security and tariffs.
A Texas man and a friend he was traveling with in Mexico died when their vehicle exploded after driving over a cartel landmine. The fatal explosion comes after Breitbart Texas reported on prior explosions where innocents sustained injuries. The report forced Mexico’s government to confirm the issue and send out a series of notices warning locals about the use of cartel landmines on dirt roads in Tamaulipas.
The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued a travel warning about drug cartels using land mines and other explosive devices in key border cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. After initially trying to conceal information about those devices and having previously tried to discredit previous alerts dealing with cartel kidnappings, the Tamaulipas government claimed to welcome the warnings and asked the public to be careful when moving through rural dirt roads.
El Consulado de los Estados Unidos en Matamoros envió una alerta de viaje para el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas advirtiendo sobre el uso de minas terrestres y otros artefactos explosivos por parte de los cárteles de la droga en ciudades fronterizas clave.
The group of four suspected cartel members who fired at U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas this week was able to avoid capture after a tense standoff. Mexican authorities left the area, allowing the gunmen to walk away. Mexican authorities have since begun to deny the shooting in an attempt to minimize the violence in the region.
Authorities in Mexico discovered a small narco-camp on an island from where Los Zetas fired on U.S. agents. The discovery came when Mexican state police forces raided the island one day after the initial shooting.
After trying to hide information, the government of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was forced to issue a series of warnings about the widespread use of cartel land mines and explosive devices in the northern part of the state. The warnings followed initial reporting by Breitbart Texas of a government vehicle striking a makeshift landmine near the state’s border with the U.S.
A group of cartel gunmen broke into the headquarters of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. They spent hours stealing dozens of weapons and bricks of cocaine that had previously been seized and placed in evidence storage areas.
A new trend has surfaced in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, where state police forces wait hours after cartel gunmen carry out any attack before responding. Mexican federal and military forces have already been doing this and sometimes do not even respond.
Mexican government officials tried to downplay a large-scale cartel shootout in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, that went on for hours. The shootout triggered a security warning from the U.S. consulate in that city.
