Cartel Chronicles

Mexican soldiers found a shipment of cocaine hidden in a passenger bus headed for the border city of Matamoros. The seizure took place at a time when authorities have stepped up their presence at highway checkpoints amid the immigration crisis.

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Rival cartels reignited a bloody turf war for control of the central part of the border state of Tamaulipas. The fighting is manifesting itself through gruesome executions and targeted killings.

Mexican authorities found the body of an unidentified migrant who presumably drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande to Texas. The case comes as U.S. authorities handle thousands of Haitian migrants crossing to claim asylum in the area.

Mexican authorities killed nine cartel gunmen while fighting off an ambush-style attack in the border state of Coahuila. The attack comes less than a month after police officers managed to hold off a cartel incursion of more than 30 vehicles full of gunmen in that same area.

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Three cartel gunmen died in a fierce shootout with authorities when their vehicle caught fire and their bodies were incinerated. That shootout is one of several that took place during recent days in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

A drug cartel unleashed a new wave of terror in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. The cartel carried out several attacks in multiple cities including a large-scale ambush on state police in an apparent show of force.

A small group of Mexican border state police officers managed to fight off a convoy of cartel gunmen in 30 SUVs with armor plating. The gunmen are believed to be members of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

Two warring cartels are turning once again to kidnapping innocent victims for ransom in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. The rise in abductions comes as Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and rival Carteles Unidos claim they are acting in the interests of the general public.

A group of mothers published a letter asking the Gulf Cartel for Permission to search one property just south of the border with Texas. The mothershave been searching for cartel mass graves in hopes of finding their missing loved ones.

A ruthless criminal organization in the border state of Tamaulipas continues to kidnap and extort the relatives of migrants trying to cross into Texas, reaping major profits.

Approximately 30 gunmen in military clothing stormed the Tamaulipas State Prosecutor's Office in Reynosa and rescued a top commander with the Gulf Cartel on Tuesday. Some gunmen wore Mexican military identifications.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized a "fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set" from the home of a man facing charges in connection with the riot at the Capitol on January 6, according to a court filing last week.

Mexican soldiers killed five cartel gunmen at a makeshift narco-camp four miles south of the Texas border. The shooting comes days after a clash between cartel forces led to the discovery of nine bodies strewn along a highway in the area.

Six cartel gunmen received a 140-year prison sentence in Mexico for their role in the kidnapping of a US Army veteran, his sister, and a third victim.

Mexican authorities are bracing for more border violence in the coming days as rival cartels fight for lucrative smuggling routes. In recent weeks, cartel gunmen killed more than 15 innocent victims and a dozen rivals.

A Mexican border city is seeing daily shootouts in the aftermath of a cartel massacre that killed 15 innocent civilians. Authorities managed to arrest nearly 20 gunmen in connection with the incident.

At least 87 migrants have died in 2021 while trying to cross from the Mexican border state of Coahuila to Texas. Most were drownings, including cases where bodies are partially eaten by alligators.