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Nuevo Laredo is the fourth-busiest border crossing in terms of passenger vehicles. [28] 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.
On 26 February 2023, five unarmed civilians were killed by Mexican Army troops in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, when soldiers fired at a pickup truck under disputed circumstances. A human rights group said that the dead were youths returning from a nightclub. The soldiers said the pickup truck had refused orders to stop.
Twenty-three bodies (14 decapitated and nine hanged from a bridge) were discovered in Nuevo Laredo in an escalation of violence by rival drug gangs on the U.S. border. [56] At about 1:00 a.m. on 4 May 2012, nine people were hanged from a bridge on Federal Highway 85D with a message left by the killers. [57]
Ana Laura Martínez Aranda still remembers lying on top of her bed-bound mother to protect her from the gunshots they heard outside their home in Nuevo Laredo. The violence in the neighborhood and ...
The disintegration of the Zetas gang may increase violence in Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Veracruz. However, violence is not inevitable; the split may discourage them from making incursions into other states. If the bosses of Los Zetas relocate their gunmen from other states to northeastern Mexico, tension could lessen elsewhere.
The fighting between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel began after Osiel Cárdenas Guillén took command of the Gulf Cartel and started attacking the Sinaloa Cartel in order to conquer some of the Yucatán territories and expand; moreover, Cárdenas wanted to defeat the Sinaloa cartel and make the Gulf Cartel Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organisation.
The attack came amid an increase in sexual violence against migrants in the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, both major transit routes for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S., according to ...
On 10 February 2020, Pablo César "G" alias "El Takia", main lieutenant of the cartel in Nuevo Laredo, was arrested in the state of Tamaulipas, accused of participating in the execution of five officials of the then State Attorney General's Office that occurred on the night of 4 January 2017 in the Nuevo Laredo Municipality.