Since the days of Mexican bootleggers tunneling whiskey into Prohibition-era Texas, gangs in Matamoros have vied for control of cross-border contraband routes. Their battles are unpredictable and ...

The Americans had traveled to the border city of Matamoros for medical procedures, the official said, citing receipts found in the vehicle. The incident highlights the ongoing violence in some ...

Matamoros is firmly in the hands of the Gulf Cartel, but fractures within that group have led to waves of violence elsewhere in Tamaulipas state. Analysts have expressed concern that if similar ...

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 ...

“They are targets of violence just because of the color of their skin,” said Cifuentes, who worked near the large migrant camp at an aid center in Matamoros. Cifuentes now works for Lawyers ...

Matamoros was not spared of this wave of violence. In 2011, 18 members of a family were taken from three homes in the city on the morning of July 9. While the women and children were freed days ...

And outbreaks of violence, such as the Reynosa rampage in 2021 or the recent Matamoros killings, show these gains remain fragile. As Ochoa pointed out, a change in ordinarily stable political or ...

Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville ... and two helicopters to quell the violence. Officials in the northern state ...

The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Mexico, issued an emergency alert to shelter in place amid an outbreak of gun violence on Monday. The consulate announced that its "employees are currently under a ...

people hoping to cross into the United States live in fear of the return of an infamous Mexican gang that raided their sprawling makeshift camp last month in Matamoros and torched dozens of tents ...

Even Mexico’s largest corporations are now being hit by demands from drug cartels, and gangs are increasingly ... outside his offices in the city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.