Topic: Gulf Cartel
Photo: saikofish/Flickr. . Faced with the risk of losing half of Mexico to a network of marauding drug traffickers, the Mexican army is digging in...
MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Texas charged a powerful former cartel chief's nephew on Friday in a drug and money laundering conspiracy that stretched across the United States.Rafael Cardenas Vela, 38, was arrested last month in South ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The recent arrests of three alleged drug gang leaders from Mexico and the shooting of a sheriff's deputy in South Texas are raising fears among some Lone Star State officials that the brutal drug wars plaguing Mexico are ...
MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered a cache of several high-powered weapons along the Rio Grande river including a rocket launcher, assault rifles and plastic explosives, authorities said.Agents found the weapons on Tuesday in a black bag ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - One of the top leaders of Mexico's brutal Gulf cartel was found dead, gunned down on a highway near the U.S. border, local media reported on Friday.Samuel Flores Borrego, also known as "Metro 3," was found ...
Mexico offered a reward Friday of $2.4 million for information leading to the arrest of armed men who torched a casino, leaving 52 people to burn and choke to death in a blazing inferno.The particularly callous attack on Thursday shocked ...
Soldiers on patrol in a Mexican border town discovered a warehouse where armor-plated "tanks" were being prepared for the Gulf drug cartel, a military source said Monday.The patrol came across the warehouse when they clashed with a group of armed men ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police said on Friday they captured a suspected drug kingpin from the Gulf drug cartel during what authorities believe was his own birthday party in a city along the U.S.-Mexican border.Gilberto Barragan Balderas, 41, was ...
Plastered to the front of the morgue in this border city, where only hours before a battle raged between Mexican security forces and gunmen believed to belong to a local drug cartel, the faces stare back, haunting in their silence and mystery ...
The entire police force in a small Mexican town abruptly resigned Tuesday after its new headquarters was viciously attacked by suspected drug...
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