An Arizona family traveling to their beach house in Mexico captured the reaction of their teen daughter on video as they are forced at gunpoint to get out their vehicle by a group of cartel gunmen.
A Mexican border state mayor called for the government to take a hard line against drug lords. He suggested having them shot rather than taking a soft approach like the one that current Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been widely criticized for.
Mexican Gulf Cartel members kidnapped two men in Texas and took them to Mexico where they tortured them for days while they forced their relatives to pay for a seized drug load. The case is just one of numerous similar cases in recent years where a Mexican drug cartel carried out kidnapping operations on American soil in South Texas.
Un convoy de más de 10 camionetas llenas de sicarios del Cartel del Golfo intentó emboscar a un escuadrón de policías en la ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa, desencadenando un tiroteo corto pero intenso done murió un operador del cartel.
A convoy of more than ten SUVs and pickup trucks filled with Gulf Cartel gunmen attempted to ambush a squad of police officers in the border city of Reynosa. The convoy began a short but intense shootout that left one cartel operator dead.
Policías estatales arrestaron a un presunto miembro del Cartel del Golfo que supuestamente estaba usando un tracto-camión para derribar cámaras de vigilancia policiales en la ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa. El arresto se produce después de que varios operadores del CDG han estado derribando cerca de una docena de cámaras en todo Reynosa esta semana.
Mexican border state police officers arrested a suspected Gulf Cartel operator who allegedly used a tractor-trailer to knock down law enforcement surveillance cameras in the border city of Reynosa. The arrest comes after Gulf Cartel members knocked down nearly a dozen cameras throughout Reynosa.
La facción del Cartel del Golfo que opera en la ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa llevó a cabo una serie de acciones coordinadas encaminadas a desmantelar las cámaras de vigilancia instaladas por las autoridades estatales. Utilizando camionetas y camiones robados, los operadores del cartel derribaron varios postes que se usaban para sostener las cámaras de la policía.
The Gulf Cartel faction that operates in the border city of Reynosa carried out a series of coordinated actions aimed at disrupting the surveillance cameras set up by state authorities. Using SUV and carjacked cargo vehicles, cartel operators knocked down several light poles being used to hold up police cameras.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets on Friday and Saturday to call out the death of a local blogger who died in police custody. The arrest of the blogger, who comes from a cartel-linked family, followed a verbal confrontation with police at a checkpoint after he videoed the aftermath of a shootout.
Decenas de manifestantes salieron a la calle para denunciar la muerte de un bloguero local que murió bajo custodia policial tras su arresto. El bloguero, que proviene de una familia con estrechos vínculos al cartel de Los Zetas, había estado grabando las secuelas de un tiroteo, cuando tuvo un enfrentamiento verbal con la policía en un puesto de control.
The governor of Coahuila, Mexico, is providing more firepower to his police officers to them battle the weapons employed by cartel gunmen. State police officers will be the only ones legally outfitted with the higher caliber weapons as the public’ possession of these types of guns in Mexico is prohibited by law.
The Mexican border state of Tamaulipas announced the rollout of a special forces police unit equipped with air surveillance and armored vehicles. The move by the state police is aimed at securing key parts of the state as cartel violence continues to be one of the main concerns in the region.
Mexican authorities arrested the top leader of a hyperviolent fuel-theft cartel that been waging a fierce turf war for control of key areas in Central Mexico. The organization known as Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) is linked not only to gruesome mass killings but also to the use of improvised explosive devices and car bombs.
Cartel gunmen left a severed human head and fired their guns in the air outside of the home of a Mexican border state police investigator. The investigator was behind key enforcement actions against the criminal organization. The threat comes more than a year after a team of cartel gunmen tried to kill the investigator in his home.
Un grupo de sicarios dejo una cabeza humana cercenada y dispararon sus armas al aire afuera de la casa de un agente del ministerio publico que había estado detrás de acciones clave contra el crimen organizado. La amenaza se produce más de un año después de que un equipo de sicario intentara matar al investigador en su casa.
The number of bodies found in mass graves by Mexican authorities rose to 185 as the search continues. Authorities searched in one of three mass graves used by a ruthless drug cartel to dispose of their victims.
Un narco-líder del estado fronterizo de Chihuahua fue arrestado como el autor intelectual de la quema de varios camiones repartidores como parte de un plan de extorsión en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. El mando criminal se estaba preparando para llevar a cabo una serie de asesinatos de gente inocente en un intento de ejercer su poder mientras buscaba establecer el dominio contra otras organizaciones criminales en la región.
Mexican police arrested a crime boss from the border state of Chihuahua identified as the mastermind behind the torching of vehicles. The incidents occurred as part of an extortion scheme in the border state of Tamaulipas.
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.
Law enforcement in Mexico killed 12 Los Zetas gunmen after an attack on Mexican soldiers in the neighborhood of Los Fresnos, near Nuevo Laredo. Military personnel from the 16th Regiment conducting routine patrols came under attack during an ambush by members
Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) is estimated to have more than 5,000 operatives working on every continent save Antarctica. The cartel is believed to have amassed a $50 billion fortune and smuggles at least five tons of methamphetamine into the U.S. monthly, according to DEA estimates.
Four teams of gunmen from Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion carried out a brazen assassination attempt against the top security official in Mexico City. The gunmen wounded their target while killing two other police officers and one innocent bystander.
The top leader of one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations appears to cry in a video he shared on social media. The cartel leader expressed outrage at a series of police operations aimed at his capture. During the raids, police forces arrested some of his relatives — including a woman believed to be his mother.
A series of raids by Tamaulipas state police officers targeting the operations of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel led authorities to a clandestine garage used to make armored vehicles. In addition to the vehicles, authorities also seized almost 80 weapons that were being used by cartel operators in Tamaulipas as they continue a series of fierce turf wars despite the current coronavirus epidemic.
Un grupo de sicarios dejó doce cuerpos en la caja de una camioneta en el estado de Michoacán. El asesinato masivo sucede en un momento en que dos de los cárteles de drogas más violentos de México han estado librando una fuerte guerra territorial por el control de la producción de drogas y sus rutas de contrabando.
A group of cartel gunmen left twelve bodies in the bed of a pickup truck in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The mass murder comes at a time when two of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels waged a fierce turf war for control of drug production and smuggling routes in the western part of the country.
A top-ranking Sinaloa Cartel operator is believed to have been executed in his home state. Just days ago, he went on the run after being granted supervised release by U.S. prosecutors.
Authorities arrested several police officers and local politicians and are under investigation for working with a narco-terrorist. The terrorist planned to blow up a local government building in the border state of Nuevo Leon.
Varios policías y políticos locales han sido arrestados o están siendo investigados por trabajar con un narcoterrorista que planeaba volar un edificio del gobierno local en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León.
Un grupo de sicarios mató a ocho víctimas inocentes que estaban comprando en una tienda de abarrotes en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. Ninguna organización criminal se ha adjudicado el ataque; sin embargo, la región ha estado en medio de una feroz guerra territorial entre varios cárteles.
A group of cartel gunmen killed eight innocent victims as they bought food at a convenience store in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. No criminal organization took credit for the attack despite the region being in the middle of a fierce turf war between several cartels.
Agentes de la policía estatal lograron confiscar una camioneta y varias armas después de repeler un ataque por miembros del Cártel del Golfo. Esa organización criminal recientemente apareció en los titulares por tratar de ganarse el favor de la gente a través de una campaña en las redes sociales donde repartieron despensas a las comunidades pobres de la región.
State police officers in Matamoros managed to seize an SUV and several weapons after fighting off an attack from members of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. That criminal organization recently made headlines for trying to gain favor through a social media campaign where they handed out boxes with food to poor communities in the region.
Soldados del Ejército mexicano mataron a siete sicarios de Los Zetas que habían organizado un ataque de emboscada. Dos de los sicarios eran guardaespaldas personales de un jefe regional del cartel. El tiroteo es el último episodio de violencia en la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo, donde la organización criminal ha establecido históricamente su base de operaciones.
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.
Un grupo independiente de distribución de drogas en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León continúa desafiando abiertamente a Los Zetas por territorios lucrativos en el área metropolitana de Monterrey. Breitbart Texas recientemente desenmascaro a su líder y ahora ha logrado obtener información exclusiva sobre las identidades de sus principales lugartenientes.
An independent drug distribution gang in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon continues to openly challenge Los Zetas over lucrative territories in the Monterrey metropolitan area. Breitbart Texas recently unmasked their leader and has now obtained exclusive information about the identities of the gang’s top lieutenants.
Un operador líder del Cartel del Golfo de México que fingió su muerte en 2017, murió esta semana en un fuerte tiroteo con presuntas fuerzas rivales en esta ciudad fronteriza. El operador del cartel había cooperado con las autoridades en México y documentos de corte en Estados Unidos señalan que había proporcionado información a investigadores a cambio de recibir trato preferencial en sus casos penales en aquel país.
A leader of a faction of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel who faked his death in 2017 died this week in a fierce shootout with rival cartel gunmen. The faction leader cooperated with authorities in Mexico and court records in the U.S. point to him having provided information to investigators in exchange for a light sentence in an old criminal case.