Two of four Americans whose abduction in Mexico was captured in a video ... known as “La Kena” or “Cyclone 19″ in Matamoros. Garcia Vilano is wanted by federal Mexican authorities.

Gonzalez / Staff Photographer) Four U.S. citizens have been kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said. Here’s what to know ...

On Friday March 3, four U.S. citizens were kidnapped after a brazen attack carried out by multiple gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros. On Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. officials ...

Mexican authorities arrested five more people Friday in connection to the kidnappings of four Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, as the bodies of the two Americans killed were returned to US ...

Last weekend’s fatal kidnapping of a group of Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, harkened back to the sickening 1989 murder of a spring breaker in the border city that made international headlines.

And while the same could be said for any significant US-Mexico border crossing, Matamoros is part of one of Mexico’s most complex criminal landscapes in northern Tamaulipas. The CDG’s control of the ...

Analysts say factions of the Gulf Cartel are fighting over the crime territory in Matamoros, which is coveted as a corridor for drug smuggling. American visitors who experience violence in Mexico ...

Matamoros is controlled by factions of the Gulf cartel, whose consolidation of power there has generally improved security. (The most violent places in Mexico are typically those where multiple ...

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They have been missing since Friday, March 3. That day, "four Americans crossed into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. Shortly after ...