Cartel Violence - Page 53

Cartel gunmen shot down a Mexican military helicopter in the latest wave of violence to hit that country which left seven dead, 15 injured and 15 gunmen arrested in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

Reynosa, Tamaulipas — Tampico Tamaulipas vivió una jornada violenta la semana pasada tras una operación fallida donde se intentó detener al jefe de plaza del Cartel del Golfo en la ciudad. Un grupo especial de SEDENA con el apoyo de la Policía Federal y Fuerza Tamaulipas intentaron el arresto del presunto jefe de plaza, según fuentes en el grupo de coordinación Tamaulipas.

TAMPICO, Tamaulipas — The Mexican port city of Tampico, Tamaulipas, had violent days after an operation aimed at arresting the head of the Gulf Cartel in that city failed. A special task force from the Mexican Army with the support of Federal Police and Fuerza Tamaulipas (vetted state cops), tried to arrest the Gulf Cartel’s plaza boss, according to sources with the Tamaulipas coordination group.

At least twenty cartel gunmen intercepted and threatened a gubernatorial candidate at gunpoint in the Mexican state of Guerrero forcing him to cancel part of his campaign tour. The attack took place when Luis Walton Aburto, the candidate for Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizen’s Movements) was traveling with his campaign staff and supporters and a group of cartel gunmen stopped them at gunpoint in the town of Chilapa Del Alvarez.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities have formally charged a feared Gulf Cartel boss whose arrest set off a series of fierce firefights and fiery blockades last week throughout this border city when 60 Gulf Cartel gunmen riding in 15 SUVs tried to free their boss.

As Mexico continues to spiral into chaos with their out of control cartel violence, the U.S. government continues to fuel the drug war by providing weapons, helicopters and hummers to what is considered by many to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

MISSION, Texas — A wanted fugitive with apparent connections to a Mexican drug cartel is dead after attacking Texas border sheriff’s deputies who were trying to arrest him. The shooting took place just north of the border city of Mission where authorities tried to arrest the wanted man. It remains unclear, at this time, if the fugitive fired a weapon at authorities or if he used some other weapon to attack them.

Nearly two hundred U.S. citizens have been murdered in Mexico since 2013. Fierce gunfights, kidnappings, bus hijackings, car-jackings and extortion by Mexican cartels are all possibilities that could be faced by U.S. citizens travelling into Mexico. These have resulted in the murder of 181 Americans in the past two years.

The capture of a regional boss for the Gulf Cartel set off a fierce firefight throughout the border city of Reynosa. The bustling industrial city was turned into a warzone. Bystanders frantically sought refuge while gunmen and soldiers exchanged gunfire.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Los cuerpos desmembrados de dos mujeres metidas en hieleras y el cuerpo sin cabeza de un hombre causo terror de las principales plazas comerciales en esta ciudad la cual está a sólo unos pasos de distancia de uno de los puentes internacionales que une esta ciudad región con la ciudad fronteriza de Brownsville Texas.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – The dismembered bodies of two women stuffed into ice chests and the headless body of a man spread terror throughout a large commercial plaza just a few feet away from an international bridge that connects this border city to Brownsville, Texas.

MCALLEN, Texas – A Mexican news outlet unknowingly debunked a story that was circulated in U.S. news claiming that a former Mexican cop turned immigration advocate was killed by cartel gunmen, after his request for asylum was denied, and he

As the once relatively quiet Mexican state of Jalisco becomes battleground of brazen attacks between cartel gunmen and police, it seems that a major news outlet, the Washington Post, may have jumped the gun in claiming that Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion is becoming the most powerful crime syndicate in Mexico.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — El ambiente en esta ciudad fronteriza sigue tenso y violento, enfrentamientos y ejecuciones el día a día en la frontera de Tamaulipas.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Clashes and executions are daily occurrences at the border of Tamaulipas, just south of the Texas border with Mexico. The atmosphere in this border city remains strained and violent.

MCALLEN, Texas –The Mexican drug cartel blamed for the recent ambush that killed 15 police officers in the state of Jalisco has now made the list of criminal organizations targeted by the U.S Department of Treasury.

MCALLEN, Texas — The sentencing of a Gulf Cartel commander has been postponed after a federal judge refused to hand down a slap on the wrist. He asked prosecutors and the federal probation office to do more research before sentencing him.

A new cartel war appears to be taking place in Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Unlike the wars in the northern part of the country where rival cartel factions fight each other for control of lucrative areas, the new war pits a drug cartel against Mexico’s police. In the most recent shootout, a group of cartel hitmen ambushed a convoy of state police officers travelling along the highway that connects the state capital of Guadalajara with the resort town of Puerto Vallarta. The attack killed 15 police officers and injured 5 others, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office revealed.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities caught a regional commander of the Gulf Cartel near the Texas border. Despite his ridiculous nickname, he had made a name for himself as one of the fiercest and most cruel enforcers for the criminal organization.

REYNOSA – Una tarde más en la frontera, un día más de peligro en la ciudad de Reynosa Tamaulipas donde esta semana se dieron dos enfrentamientos entre integrantes del crimen organizado y fuerzas federales. El clima sigue tenso en esta ciudad y la violencia no se detiene a pesar de los constantes operativos de fuerzas armadas que se intensificaron después de la nueva confrontación entre grupos dentro del Cartel del Golfo.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas –Another afternoon near the border, another day of shootouts in the border city of Reynosa where earlier this week cartel gunmen and federal forces clashed. The community remains tense in the city and the violence does not stop in spite of the various operations by government task forces that were recently intensified when the various factions of the Gulf cartel went to war.

Two commanders with Los Zetas who appear to be behind most of the kidnapping and extortion activity in the border city of Nuevo Laredo and the Tamaulipas State Capital of Ciudad Victoria are now behind bars.

Mexico’s Federal Police arrested Sarahi “La Hysteria” Garza Cadena during a traffic stop this past week in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. She was traveling in a car with two of her henchmen. Authorities recovered some weapons, a grenade, 15 kilograms of marijuana and communication equipment during the arrest, information released to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.

One member of the Zetas drug cartel who was tied to the brutal massacre of 72 Central American immigrants in 2010, has been captured by Mexican Federal Police. Jose Guadalupe “El Sasi” Reyes Rivera was caught this week while hiding out in a mechanic shop in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the State of Tamaulipas, information released to Breitbart Texas by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office revealed.

Cartel gunmen in Matamoros have thrown a grenade at a Mexican TV station near the Texas border for the second time in as many months. The latest attack took place at the Televisa station. This is the same station that in February, Breitbart Texas reported that two employees were injured when Gulf Cartel gunmen lobbed a grenade at the security booth at the entrance.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Las constantes pugnas de grupos dentro de la organización criminal denominada Cartel del Golfo amenazan con una nueva etapa de violencia para la ciudad de Reynosa en Tamaulipas. Una de las pugnas que amenaza con mas violencia tiene que ver con una aparente traición por uno de los mandos del Cartel Del Golfo que se presume dio información de otro comandante y una rápida venganza por la parte afectada.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The constant infighting within the groups that make up the Gulf cartel point to a new wave of violence coming to in this border city. One of the fights that may bring more violence has to do with the apparent betrayal by one of the commanders who is believed to have tipped off authorities on another commander. That cartel leader answered with a swift revenge and execution.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — La ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa vivió una noche de terror cuando un intento fallido de apresar a un comandante del Cartel del Gofo desato un enfrentamiento armado en una de las principales avenidas. El enfrentamiento paralizó a la ciudad y aterrorizó a las familias que se divertían en centros comerciales y restaurantes en el cierre del fin de semana.

The border city of Reynosa lived through a night of terror when a failed attempt to capture a Gulf Cartel commander set off a fierce shootout in one of the city’s main avenues. The shootout brought the city to a halt and terrified many families who had been out in shopping centers and restaurants to finish off their weekend.

MCALLEN, Texas – El Gobierno de Tamaulipas se ha adjudicado la captura de un comandante de alto rango del Cartel Del Golfo el cual fue arrestado en Texas, afirmando que su captura al igual que la de otros 12 capos de alto nivel es parte de una nueva estrategia de seguridad para Tamaulipas del Gobierno Mexicano.

MCALLEN, Texas – The Tamaulipas government has taken credit for the capture of a high ranking Gulf cartel commander caught in Texas, claiming his capture along with 12 other top capos was part of the Mexican Government’s new security strategy for Tamaulipas.

MCALLEN, Texas – Autoridades mexicanas anunciaron la detención de un jefe Zeta el cual ha sido identificado como el heredero del grupo criminal y la detención de un comandante del Cartel del Golfo (CDG) tras varias redadas. Uno de los mandos criminales trato del sobornar a las autoridades las cuales rechazaron la oferta.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Luego de una aparente calma en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros ubicada a una corta distancia del puente internacional con Brownsville Texas, nuevamente se registró una jornada violenta que semi-paralizo la ciudad.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – After some days of apparent peace in the Mexican border city of Matamoros just south of Brownsville Texas, once again a series of violent gun battles stopped daily activities around most parts of the city.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — El enemigo dentro de las filas de los que luchan contra el crimen organizado se llama corrupción. La lucha contra el crimen organizado en Tamaulipas tiene un enemigo invisible, uno con mucho poder, uno muy grande que obstaculiza los intentos por pacificar al estado e incluso amenaza con ganar esta guerra.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – The fight against organized crime in this border state has an invisible enemy, one with enough size and power to block the attempts to quiet down Tamaulipas; it even threatens to win the ongoing war on drugs. That enemy is corruption within the ranks of the those who are supposed to be fighting the cartels.

Five Federal police officers, three hitmen and two bystanders were killed and eight other officers were injured during a fierce ambush on the part of a Mexican drug cartel. At least a dozen vehicles with gunmen fired at police in the Mexican state of Jalisco.