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The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
Seven people were killed in a shootout between the army and suspected drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo Wednesday. The shootings were the second time in as many ...
On 13 March 2022, Juan Gerardo Treviño Chávez alias "El Huevo" or "Huevo", leader of the Cartel and head of La Tropa del Infierno since 2016, was arrested after an operation in the Hidalgo neighborhood in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and by which there were several confrontations and blockades in the city, among which 38 armed attacks against ...
Nuevo Laredo is the fourth-busiest border crossing in terms of passenger vehicles. [163] Patrick Corcoran of InSight Crime believes that the turf war in Nuevo Laredo will bring a huge wave of violence, but also mentioned that the circumstances have changed since the split of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas in early 2010.
The anonymous tip that led Mexican authorities to a remote shack where four abducted Americans were held described armed men, people wearing blindfolds and plenty of activity around a ranch.
The Gulf Cartel and the Northeast Cartel are both active in the region and kidnap migrants for ransom, particularly those who arrive without smugglers' protection, according to security analysts ...
[6] [7] Following the 2003 arrest of Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas, it is believed the Sinaloa Cartel moved 200 men into the region to battle the Gulf Cartel for control. [4] [15] The Nuevo Laredo region is an important drug trafficking corridor as 40% of all Mexican exports, a total of 9,000 trucks, pass through the region into the United ...
[28] and accusing President Felipe Calderón and state authorities of protecting the cartel. [29] In 2010 and 2011, it was also claimed that the state government and police protected the cartel. [29] The addition of bodies to the messages suggested that the killers were trying to attract more attention to alleged cartel-government collusion. [29]