Residents of Tamaulipas, which is key to Mexico’s goal of attracting foreign investors to its oil industry, fear a return to the bloody days of 2010, when hundreds of people died and communities ...

Here’s a map of the territory controlled by Mexico’s most active drug cartels, based on Stratfor data. These borders are approximate and pretty much every part of Mexico not colored in is ...

Tamaulipas in Mexico's northeast corner is valuable territory because of its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the US border, highways that cross it, and the energy infrastructure in the area.

Total, since 2015 the state has recorded over 3,375 murders, nearly as many as during the initial flare-up of cartel-related killings from 2010-2013 when 3,573 people were killed in Tamaulipas.

Crime Billion-dollar Mexican cartel ops disrupted by Trump's border crackdown as US issues do-not-travel warning Criminal activity in the area along the US-Mexico border includes gun battles ...

Inside Mexican/American gunrunning networks 03:12. Mexican troops on patrol killed 12 gunmen in a clash near the U.S. border in Tamaulipas, according to the government of the northeastern state ...

In contested territory, one cartel might hang banners around a city blaming a rival for recent violence and distinguishing themselves as the gang that does not mess with civilians.

While some analysts and security experts believe the CJNG’s invasion of Tamaulipas is all but a sure thing despite the Gulf Cartel’s deep historical roots here, others say the situation is more ...

Mexican drug cartels have displaced Colombian groups as the dominant cocaine traffickers in the world. Much of the violence stems from struggles over territory.

10 bodies found in Acapulco, Mexico, amid cartel violence 04:06. Three state police officers and four drug cartel suspects were killed in a running series of shootouts in the northern Mexico ...

Cartel fighting spread along Mexican border, just south of the Rio Grande Valley. Spasm of intense violence engulfs Tamaulipas San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Officials are urging residents to "exercise extreme caution" after a 74-year-old Texas rancher was killed by an improvised explosive device on his property in Mexico, which is suspected to have ...