Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels
Por más de una semana los tiroteos se han convertido en un hecho de casi a todos los días en esta ciudad fronteriza, a pesar de las muchas afirmaciones por parte de los funcionarios del gobierno sobre que la condición de seguridad está mejorando.
For more than a week shootouts have become almost daily occurrences in this border city despite the many claims by government officials that security condition are is improving.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Suspected cartel cash smugglers failed in their attempt to use a small private airplane to move a large quantity of money from the Texas border city of McAllen to the Mexican city of Monterrey. According to information provided by Mexican authorities to Breitbart Texas, the airplane is a U.S. Cessna registered to Carlos Humberto Diez De Pinos in Laredo, Texas.
A team of gunmen crashed a party setting off a shootout that killed one man and injured another in an upper class neighborhood in this border city.
Un grupo de hombres armados irrumpieron en una fiesta realizando un tiroteo que mató a un hombre e hirió a otro en un fraccionamiento de clase alta en esta ciudad fronteriza.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities have arrested the top Zeta figure in this border city along with three of his personal bodyguards.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Ejecuciones del cártel continúan golpeando a esta ciudad debido a que dos facciones de Los Zetas luchan por el control de la región.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel executions continue to rock this city as two factions of Los Zetas fight for control of the region.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Las autoridades mexicanas detuvieron a un alto jefe de Los Zetas en esta ciudad fronteriza, junto con tres de sus guardaespaldas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades de este estado fronterizo llevaron a cabo recientemente un despliegue de fuerzas policiales en un intento de frenar la actividad de la delincuencia organizada.
Lack of basic security conditions amid raging cartel violence, a tanking economy, rampant corruption and a government in a constant state of denial all continue to drive up the discontent of Mexico’s society.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state recently carried out a deployment of security forces in an attempt to curb an increase organized criminal activity from Los Zetas. Coahuila sits immediately south of the Texas of Eagle Pass and Del Rio.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas– Continua siendo el secuestro uno de los principales delitos que atentan en contra de los ciudadanos fronterizos. Ante la demanda de la sociedad, un operativo coordinado por parte de elementos federales y estatales, logro desarticular una célula criminal dedicada al secuestro exprés en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Kidnappings continue to be one of the main crimes that have been plaguing border citizens. In response to the demand for public safety by this community, federal and local authorities carried out a coordinated manhunt aimed at capturing a cell that had been carrying out “express kidnappings” in this border city.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — El paisaje cotidiano en las ciudades de México se ha transformado en los últimos años, una década después de iniciar la guerra contra el narco en el país la militarización es total, la forma de vida cambio en las comunidades en el norte del país.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The daily landscape in Mexican border cities has changed in recent years. A decade after the war on drugs started in Mexico, the militarization is total. Life has changed in the communities in the northern part of the country.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — County authorities in this border region raided a Mexican drug cartel weapons, cash, and narcotics depot that was being used to store ammunition and weapons that would presumably be sent to drug cartels in Mexico and narcotics moving north. The raid took place Tuesday night in Brownsville when investigators with the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office served a search warrant at an undisclosed location, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the DA’s office revealed.
MCALLEN, Texas — The U.S. Department of State has renewed their existing Mexico Travel Warning revealing that the border state of Tamaulipas has nonexistent law enforcement capabilities. “U.S. citizens have been the victims of violent crimes such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking and robbery by organized criminal groups in various Mexican states” the first paragraph of the travel warning revealed.
Smugglers allegedly working for the Mexican Gulf Cartel appear to be choosing to go for the more discreet look of concealed carry weapons when it comes to firearms. Gaudy jeweled handguns had previously been the fashion choice of cartel members.
Violence has increased in various parts of this border state following the pulling out of more than 680 Mexican army soldiers who had been charged with carrying out police duties.
A team of cartel gunmen recently ambushed a squad of Mexican federal police officers near this Mexican city. The ambush turned into a pursuit and eventually a rescue effort as law enforcement officials searched for some of their missing comrades.
Mexican cartel smugglers on the waters of the Rio Grande got into a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents. No injuries were reported and the gunmen got away.
With the loud sounds of gunfire as convoys of gunmen clashed with authorities is how the residents of this border city were forced to celebrate Epiphany which is also known as the visit of the Three Magi. As customary, Tamaulipas officials released basic information that does not match with the actual events as the official version is only a fraction of what actually happened.
Con fuertes sonidos de disparos, cuando grupos de hombres armados se enfrentaron con las autoridades, es como los residentes de esta ciudad fronteriza celebraron la Epifanía o la visita de los Tres Reyes Magos. Como es habitual, los funcionarios de Tamaulipas dieron información básica que no coincide con el evento real, ya que la versión oficial es sólo una fracción de lo que realmente ocurrió.
Authorities continue to search for multiple gunmen in connection with a home invasion turned drug shootout that killed two men last month near this border city.
Mexican authorities arrested a teenager accused of taking part in a fake kidnapping scheme of an employee in order to fool a local businessman.
The Tamaulipas state government is continuing look at various ways to muffle news outlets in order to show a positive side to the area and to minimize the out of control violence in the region and to present a positive side to things.
Policías mexicanos mataron a un hombre armado del Cártel de Los Zetas durante un breve enfrentamiento en una zona rural cerca de esta ciudad fronteriza. Aunque las autoridades encontraron varios pistoleros de Los Zetas, sólo uno se enfrentó contra las autoridades, mientras que el resto huyó.
Mexican police officers killed a Los Zetas cartel gunman during a short clash in a rural area near this border city. While authorities found multiple Los Zetas gunmen, only one faced off against authorities while the rest fled into brush.
Terror continues to take hold of this border city as the number of gruesome beheadings by the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to grow. Just days after Los Zetas had beheaded three informants and made a gory show of spreading their heads around the city, they have done it again.
El terror continúa apoderándose de esta ciudad fronteriza mientras que el número de terribles decapitaciones por Los Zetas Cártel sigue creciendo. Apenas unos días después de que Los Zetas habían decapitado a tres informantes e hicieron un sangriento espectáculo con el esparcimiento de las cabeza alrededor de la ciudad, lo hicieron por cuarta vez.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — As authorities continue to deal with a sudden spike in violence that has resulted in various executions and most recently the beheading of three informants at the hands of Los Zetas cartel members, one failed daytime execution continues to spike interests of investigators.
A failed home invasion turned into a drug shootout near the border city of Mission, Texas, and left two gunmen dead as drug traffickers tried to steal a load of narcotics from a house — but the owners of the drugs fought back.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Autoridades de este estado fronterizo continúan investigando una serie de ejecuciones que recientemente conmocionaron a la población.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — As another year comes to a close in Mexico, it has been filled with drug violence, controversy and crime. Rather than a decrease in drug crime, the country has begun to see escalating violence in places previously untouched. The sentiment expressed by many in this country is that widespread corruption is one of the main factors that continues to fuel raging violence.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into a series of executions that recently shook this community. The gruesome murders remain unsolved. Piedras Negras sits immediately south of the Texas border city of Eagle Pass.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into the gory discovery of three decapitated bodies that the Los Zetas cartel dumped in public places. The heads were found in separate locations immediately south of the U.S.-Mexico border below the Del Rio Sector.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The cleanup of Gulf Cartel leaders in this border city continues by authorities. The structure of the criminal organization that operates on the northern side of Tamaulipas continues to lose key figures.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — El crimen organizado que opera y causa terror en esta ciudad fronteriza esta tratando de deslindarze de la ola de secuestros y homicidios causados por ellos mismos.
