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.
Varias células de traficantes de metanfetamina independientes han logrado crecer en poder y tamaño hasta el punto en que se han podido enfrentar activamente con otros carteles que buscan controlar todos los mercados de drogas en la ciudad.
Multiple cells of independent meth dealers managed to grow in power and size to the point where they began to actively clash with other drug cartels who are trying to control all the drug markets.
A Mexican court sentenced a Los Zetas cartel kidnapper related to the highest leaders of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel to 90 years in prison.
A group of Los Zetas cartel members left a severed human head outside a border state prison. The move is the latest in a series of threats and intimidation tactics aimed at taking control of criminal activity inside the detention facilities in Nuevo Leon.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A Los Zetas gunman fled to Texas after being shot multiple times during a fierce firefight with Mexican authorities this week. U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked and apprehended him before eventually giving medical assistance. The incident ultimately resulted in the deaths of eight cartel members.
RIO BRAVO, Texas — Chaos erupted in a small Texas border town as Los Zetas smugglers launched a complex smuggling operation. Border Patrol agents responded to an illegal crossing that quickly tied up agency resources in the area, enabling smugglers to move higher-value cargo elsewhere.
A series of clashes between members of Los Zetas and the Mexican military led to a two-day span of multiple shootouts in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. At least seven gunmen and one soldier died in the firefights. The gunmen carjacked numerous vehicles and set them on fire in an attempt to block streets and set up ambushes against authorities. The tactics used by the cartel gunmen once again spread terror among residents of that city.
Mexican authorities are sending 100 soldiers and helicopters crews to patrol one of the busiest highway corridors in the border state of Tamaulipas. The region is a haven for cartel gunmen.
Un grupo de sicarios de Los Zetas que viajaban en camionetas blindados y portaban rifles calibre .50, ametralladoras y explosivos enfrentaron y corretearon a un grupo de policías de Nuevo León que habían ingresado brevemente a la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo en Tamaulipas. Tres oficiales sufrieron varias heridas en el ataque, y Los Zetas lograron incendiar uno de los vehículos de la policía. Las autoridades estatales están tratando de minimizar el ataque alegando que Los Zetas no usaron lanzagranadas o lanzacohetes, a pesar de que varias fuentes policiales confirmaron a este medio el uso de artefactos explosivos.
A group of Los Zetas gunmen riding in armored trucks while carrying .50 caliber rifles, machine guns, and explosives chased a squad of Nuevo Leon police officers out of the cartel’s territory. The police briefly entered the border city of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas. State officials are trying to downplay the attack claiming that Los Zetas did not use grenade launchers or RGP’s, despite multiple law enforcement sources confirming the use of explosive devices.
A territorial expansion by the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas throughout the border state of Nuevo Leon is now being challenged by two small independent drug gangs. The gangs are fighting to hold on to their territories in key municipalities in the Monterrey Metropolitan area. Breitbart News obtained exclusive access to police and military intelligence identifying the leaders of those gangs and their areas of influence.
Una expansión territorial realizada por la facción Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) de Los Zetas en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León está siendo desafiada por dos pequeñas pandillas independientes de narcotraficantes que están peleando para mantener sus territorios en municipios clave del área metropolitana de Monterrey. Breitbart News tuvo acceso exclusivo a inteligencia policiaca y militar que identifica a los líderes de esas pandillas y sus áreas de influencia.
he ruthless faction of Los Zetas known as Cartel Del Noreste continues to terrorize communities along Mexico’s border by dismembering bodies or desecrating them in other ways. The cold-blooded killers frequently leave the remains in public places in an attempt to intimidate law enforcement and rivals.
La despiadada facción de Los Zetas conocida como Cartel Del Noreste continúa aterrorizando a las comunidades de los estados fronterizos de México al desmembrar los cuerpos de sus víctimas para luego dejarlos en lugares públicos en un intento de intimidar a la policía y sus rivales.
Two main factions of the hyper-violent Los Zetas cartel are once again fighting for control of the state prison in this city. Despite government crackdowns, cartel members continue to run various moneymaking operations from inside prison walls making the detention facility a lucrative territory to control.
Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of 14 victims, including an infant, during a party in the coastal state of Veracruz. The murder marks the latest episode of violence in a region where cartel gunmen openly challenge Mexico’s government and appear to surpass the capabilities of police agencies.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Un equipo de sicarios dejó una narco-amenaza junto al cuerpo de una víctima que habían ejecutado en en esta ciudad fronteriza. El mensaje es similar a otros dejados anteriormente, donde sicarios con Los Zetas advierten a la población que no informe sobre el cartel y que no trabaje con las autoridades estatales.
A team of cartel gunmen left a threatening message next to the body of a murder victim in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, near the Texas border.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Elementos militares asignados a esta ciudad fronteriza abatieron a seis sicarios del Cartel Del Noreste tras ser atacados. Los militares decomisaron rifles calibre .50, metralletas, equipo táctico y varias camionetas presuntamente robadas.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended several Central American migrants who reported being held at gunpoint and extorted for money by cartel members in Mexico. Agents patrolling near the border in the Laredo Sector apprehended a Honduran male in the
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades en esta ciudad fronteriza están investigando la ejecución de un hombre local cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado justo detrás del refugio para migrantes donde más de 1700 miembros de la caravana Hondurena esperan para solicitar asilo en Texas. La víctima que llevaba varias semanas medio enterrada cuando fue descubierta, no es un migrante.
Authorities in Mexico are investigating the execution of a local man after finding his body just behind a shelter where more than 1700 caravan migrants are housed. The half-buried victim is not a migrant and had been there for several weeks before authorities found his remains. The caravan migrants are waiting for an opportunity to claim asylum in Texas.
The discovery took place this week in an open field just behind the migrant shelter when authorities came across the
Mexican drug cartels continue to be the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S., federal authorities stated in one of their latest reports. Federal agencies reported that drug cartels in Mexico continue to be the wholesale sources of drugs for street gangs that in turn push narcotics at the local level.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – El cartel dominante en la región, ordenó a los medios de comunicación de esta ciudad fronteriza que no denuncien o investiguen el reciente asesinato de un exalcalde de la ciudad.
News outlets in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo have been ordered by the dominant drug cartel in the area to not report or dig into the recent murder of a former city mayor.
Newly released evidence revealed that cartel gunmen butchered several children including toddlers and buried their remains in a series of mass graves in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz. The more than 166 victims believed to have been buried there have not been identified.
Cartel gunmen escalated the number of executions in the capital city of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Cartel hitmen began a new tactic where they are now raiding homes early in the morning. The raids are designed to surprise their sleeping victims and kill them at point-blank range.
A series of attacks on five bars in and around Monterrey left 12 individuals dead and six others injured. Law enforcement sources point to the Cartel Del Noreste faction of the cartel known as Los Zetas as having been behind the terrorist-style attacks.
Se espera que el propietario de un lavadero de autos en la ciudad fronteriza de Piedras Negras se recupere por completo luego de que sobrevivió un intento de ejecución por un grupo de sicarios que llegaron al negocio en una motocicleta para dispararle. Autoridades locales tratan de identificar un motivo y detener a los sicarios.
The owner of a local car wash in the border city of Piedras Negras a failed assassination attempt. The business owner is expected to make a full recovery after a team of cartel gunmen riding in a motorcycle shot at him several times. Local authorities are working to find a motive and to arrest the gunmen.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Una familia de cuatro, incluyendo dos niñas pequeñas, murieron por fuego cruzado luego de quedar atrapadas en una feroz batalla armada donde sicarios intentaban emboscar a un convoy de tropas de la Marina mexicana. Los combates también provocaron la muerte de un marino mexicano y que otros 12 marinos fueran heridos de gravedad; las autoridades lograron matar a cuatro de los sicarios.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — A family of four, including two young girls, died after getting caught in the crossfire of a fierce battle as cartel gunmen tried to ambush a Mexican Marine convoy. The incident also led to one marine dying with 12 others seriously injured. Authorities managed to kill four attackers.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The Mexican government granted an extradition request filed by the United States for a former cartel-linked Tamaulipas governor facing money laundering charges in Texas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Varias figuras clave dentro de la Oficina del Procurador General de Coahuila se hicieron de la vista gorda mientras el cártel de Los Zetas secuestraba, asesinaba e incineraba a cientos de víctimas en la parte norte de este estado fronterizo. Cada uno de esos oficiales estatales de alto rango falló en actuar durante y después de las atrocidades emprendidas por uno de los cárteles más violentos de México; sorprendentemente, cada uno de esos oficiales continúa siendo empleado del estado en la misma o en una similar capacidad.
Un decomiso de armas cerca de esta ciudad fronteriza apunta a que el peligroso cartel continua acopiando arsenal tipo militar para continuar aterrorizando esta región.
The seizure of a large cache of military weapons at a rural area near this border city points to the dangerous cartel, known as Los Zetas continuing to arm themselves in order to continue terrorizing this region.
A Mexican woman has been sent to prison for her role in the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Texas who were then taken to Mexico for ransom. Five cartel gunmen ambushed their victims outside of a restaurant in Laredo, Texas, during the kidnapping. The woman had been providing information on the victims.
One of Mexico’s most violent cartels dumped the bodies of hundreds, perhaps thousands of their victims into various dams and lakes throughout the northern part of Mexico and along the U.S. border.
