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.

U.S. Border Patrol monitor on the bank of the Rio Grande near the Gateway International Bridge, between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on March 16, 2021, in ...

A uthorities in Mexico arrested five more people Friday in connection with the kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, two of whom were killed. The bodies of the two victims ...

Matamoros, Mexico, is a stronghold for various criminal organizations, particularly the Gulf Cartel. U.S. and Mexican officials say four U.S. citizens were abducted at gunpoint in the city on Friday.

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 ...

A Red Cross worker closes the door of an ambulance carrying two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico last week, in Matamoros, Tuesday, March 7, 2023.

MATAMOROS, MEXICO — They stuck together, walking slowly on busted sidewalks, approaching corners warily. They hurried past smoky taco stands and fleabag hotels. Nobody strayed. Deported from ...

After crossing from Brownsville, Texas into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, shots were fired on a group of Americans in a van. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly drug-related shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in ...

The latter was one of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords and was arrested in Matamoros in 2003 before being extradited to the United States in 2007. Cárdenas Martínez had been the CDG leader in Matamoros ...

Soldiers patrol near the Forensic Medical Service morgue building ahead of the transfer of the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen to the U.S. border, in Matamoros, Mexico, March 9 ...