Residents in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, will soon be able to shop at a market that looks distinctly like the famed Texas gas station and country store Buc-ee’s.

But conflict has flared in Tamaulipas over the past 15 years as the incumbent Gulf Cartel – founded in Matamoros – fragmented, starting with its notoriously violent armed wing, Los Zetas.

The FBI announced that four Americans who traveled from Texas across the border to Tamaulipas, Mexico, are missing after they were shot at and possibly kidnapped.

Four Americans, one woman and three men, enter Matamoros in a white Chrysler Pacifica minivan with North Carolina license plates after crossing the border at Brownsville.

News & Politics Matamoros Was Once Relatively Safe for Texans. That Seems to Be Changing. The recent kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in the Mexican city across the river from Brownsville appears ...

The state of Tamaulipas may not top Mexico's violence rankings, but the Gulf Cartel's fragmentation is raising concerns.

The abduction took place on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of the Americans and the arrests of those involved.

Four U.S. citizens were kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said Sunday, March 5, 2023.

Two other U.S. citizens were rescued in the city of Matamoros after a trip across the border for cosmetic surgery turned deadly following an ambush and kidnapping.

Medical Examiner How One of Mexico’s Largest Migrant Camps Has Avoided a COVID-19 Outbreak Matamoros began its preparation, with extremely limited resources, in March. So far, it’s paid off.