Cartel Violence - Page 7

Mexican authorities denied the violence taking place in the northern part of Tamaulipas. Hours later, they deployed more than 700 military soldiers and national guardsmen to the region.

Breitbart Texas spoke with a Venezuelan migrant recently released on the downtown streets of Brownsville, Texas, who provided a before and after video of a migrant encampment. The migrant confirmed reports that members of the feared Gulf Cartel attacked the encampment last week. The migrant says the cartel members were angered by the Venezuelan migrants helping to ferry others across the Rio Grande using inflatable mattresses as makeshift rafts.

Authorities in Mexico discovered eight bodies as they carried out a search in various locations throughout the city of Cancun for locals previously reported kidnapped or missing. The discovery and subsequent searches come at a time when the tourist hotspot is experiencing a dramatic rise in violence as rival criminal organizations fight for control of the lucrative local drug and sex trade.

Several vehicles seized during a day of shootouts revealed that the fearsome narco-terrorist Cartel Jalisco New Generation appears to be operating in the border state of Tamaulipas. The deadly cartel is allegedly working in an alliance of sorts with one faction of the Gulf Cartel.

Cartel violence continues to escalate in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, particularly around its capital and surrounding communities as the Gulf Cartel seeks to expand its territories. This move by the cartel brought a rise in violence that is negatively impacting local communities.

Seven cartel gunmen died and several other individuals sustained gunshot wounds during a series of shootouts in western Mexico. The region experienced several days of fighting as gunmen from La Familia Michoacana fought against gunmen from Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Siete sicarios murieron y varias otras personas sufrieron heridas de bala durante una serie de tiroteos en el oeste de México. La región ha visto durante varios días enfrentamientos entre sicarios de La Familia Michoacana y sicarios del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación.

An ongoing turf war for control of a key logistical city in the border state of Tamaulipas is spreading terror among locals as new kidnappings and shootouts led to the deaths of innocent bystanders.

Una guerra territorial por el control de una ciudad clave en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas está sembrando el terror entre los lugareños, ya que nuevos secuestros y tiroteos han provocado la muerte de victimas inocentes.

A cartel shooting at a Starbucks in a ritzy shopping center in Mexico City caused widespread panic as shoppers and dinners in the vicinity ran for cover. Officials say the shooting was a targeted killing aimed at a member of the Arellano Felix (Tijuana) Cartel.

The top officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross compared the violence in Mexico with the levels seen in an active war zone. The comparison comes as the country continues to see a high number of murders, forced disappearances, and cases of people forced to leave their homes.

Las autoridades en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas trataron de ocultar el asesinato dentro de la prisión en Nuevo Laredo de un miembro de Los Zetas originales. Ese narco-líder había sido un miembro del ejército de México y tenía entrenamiento de fuerzas especiales.

A group of Mexican National Guardsmen is being accused of firing nearly 90 rounds into a vehicle being driven by an innocent family killing three victims including a pregnant woman and her unborn child.

A group of cartel gunmen stormed a waterpark in central Mexico and began shooting. The gunmen killed seven victims including a seven-year-old girl. The murder comes at a time when the state of Guanajuato continues to be a hotspot for cartel violence.

Cartel killings and kidnappings continue to plague Cancun and the surrounding areas as cartel criminal organizations continue to battle. The groups tied to factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation are fighting for control of the region’s lucrative drug distribution and other businesses catering to tourists.

The various cartels operating in central and western Mexico continue to carry out numerous kidnappings as a way to exert their control over key highways that connect Mexico City with border cities.

Los diversos cárteles que operan en el centro y occidente de México continúan realizando numerosos secuestros como una forma de ejercer su control sobre las principales carreteras que conectan a la Ciudad de México con las ciudades fronterizas.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed the kidnapping of two separate groups of travelers who were making their way from Central Mexico to a border state in passenger vans. The two mass kidnapping cases come almost at the same time as one of Mexico’s busiest tourist seasons. To enhance safety, government officials announced the deployment of thousands of police officers and troops to patrol the nation’s highways.

A group of gunmen kidnapped 23 victims traveling in two vans through Mexico as part of a tour. After making various demands from relatives, the gunmen released 15 victims. Eight others remain missing at the time of this publication.

A group of gunmen ambushed and killed a local police commander and one of his officers in the Mexican border state of Sonora. The gunmen fired more than one hundred rounds into the victim’s vehicle causing catastrophic injuries that left the two men disfigured.

Cartel gunmen and police forces clashed in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, in a chase-turned-shootout. The shootout, which went on for over an hour spread, terror among the local community.

Authorities in the U.S. helped their Mexican counterparts arrest a Romanian woman who was wanted in Mexico for various extortions allegedly made on behalf of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).

The fate of a Texas man remains unknown after a team of cartel gunmen took him out of a house in Laredo, Texas, and crossed him into the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The victim reportedly bragged about stealing $50,000 from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

Fierce shootouts between cartel gunmen and Mexican soldiers continue in and around the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The intense shootouts come at a time when politicians claim that the border state of Tamaulipas is safe.

A group of Mexican police officers talked a crying Gulf Cartel gunman into surrendering his gun. The gunman appeared to have been a migrant forced to join the criminal organization. He later asked to be sent back to his home country.

A medida que la violencia de los cárteles continúa extendiéndose por México y su gobierno sigue sin poder detenerla, los líderes de los cárteles continúan ganando fama e influencia convirtiéndose en íconos de la cultura popular, temas de canciones y programas de televisión. Un grupo en particular, las mujeres, ya sea como líderes o como familiares, llamadas narco-reinas, han ganado mucha notoriedad en los últimos años.

The investigation into a kidnapping that turned fatal after one of the suspects shot a fellow would-be kidnapper by accident led to another suspect’s arrest. The case is reportedly tied to a dispute between human smuggling groups connected to the Gulf Cartel.

A convoy of Gulf Cartel gunmen surrounded a group of police officers and forced them to release their arrested comrades at gunpoint. The case took place on the same day that Tamaulipas governor publicly claimed that his state was seeing a decrease in violent crime and was currently one of the ten safest in the country.

The investigation by authorities in Mexico into the murder of a deputy police chief in the state of Guanajuato. The gunmen ambushed the top official in the streets as raging cartel violence and terror attacks continued to plague the state.

The son of the ultimate leader of the Gulf Cartel will spend more than eight years in a U.S. prison for coordinating the shipment of weapons into Mexico for the criminal organization once led by his father. He was on supervised release at the time of his arrest. The narco-heir has a long history of prior convictions on weapons charges and is currently facing multiple charges in a Texas court for a violent stabbing in the border city of Brownsville.

An ongoing turf war between members of the Sinaloa Cartel and its once ally-turned-rival, the Caborca Cartel, has led to intense shootouts and multiple death threats. The threats include using a pig’s head and a funeral wreath, while others included a written message stuck to a victim’s chest with a knife.

Sicarios del cártel en Michoacán incendiaron tres bares y cuatro tiendas mientras organizaciones criminales luchan por el derecho a extorsionar a los negocios locales. En respuesta a los incendios provocados, una asociación empresarial local expresó su indignación por las condiciones en las que tienen que trabajar y algunos de los bares cerraron mientras que funcionarios del gobierno intentaban minimizar los incendios.

Cartel gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan set fire to three bars and four stores as criminal organizations fight for the right to extort local businesses. In response to the arsons, a local business association expressed outrage at the conditions they have to work under. Some of the bars shut down while government officials tried to minimize the political impact of the fires.

Mexican state investigators seized a Lamborghini, raided a cartel clinic, and even seized a Matamoros city ambulance as part of the hunt for the cartel boss alleged to be behind the fatal kidnapping of four U.S. citizens.

Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC) spoke out about the four Americans recently abducted in Mexico, revealing that at least one of them is from his district and emphasizing that border states are not the only ones affected by Mexican drug cartels’ “rampant illicit activity.”

The FBI has confirmed that cartel gunmen shot and kidnapped four U.S. citizens in the border city of Matamoros on Friday. Mexican authorities are minimizing the case by claiming that an innocent bystander was the only victim of the shooting.