While several cities just south of the Texas border have been living in a state of siege following a fierce cartel war, Tamaulipas government officials have begun a consistent effort to minimize the brutality of the fighting and the lawlessness throughout the state.
Mexican authorities have found the remains of at least 60 bodies and loose limbs inside an abandoned funeral home in the Mexican tourist resort of Acapulco. The gruesome find was made by state and military authorities responding to citizen complaints
After several days of chaos near the Texas border due to cartel firefights, unknown individuals threw a grenade at the Matamoros City Hall, a Mexican city just across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
MCALLEN, Texas –Two alleged cartel hitmen have been jailed, charged with using machine guns to shoot at a hotel used as barracks by Mexican federal police near the Texas border.
Two Gulf Cartel gunmen died in a shootout with the Mexican military in Reynosa, a border city in the northern party of Tamaulipas, Mexico, directly across the border from Hidalgo, Texas.
MCALLEN, Texas — A Mexican University in the border city of Nuevo Laredo has temporarily shut its doors citing safety concerns after a series of apparent cartel threats. The Nuevo Laredo campus of Universidad Valle De Mexico (UVM) recently shut
