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Some Laredo residents also began calling 9-1-1 early in the morning as the cartel battles in Nuevo Laredo reached their peak. [53] One resident even said that the explosions in Nuevo Laredo made his house shake across the border. [53] Soon after the attacks, the Mexican Army put up a military checkpoint in the avenue where the hotel is situated ...
On 4 August 2020, Guadalupe Villarreal Gómez "N" and her partner were arrested in the municipality of Nuevo Laredo, the leader of a faction of the Northeast Cartel. She was assigned to various municipalities in both the south and north of the state in which she maintained relationships with criminal leaders such as the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
Nuevo Laredo is the fourth-busiest border crossing in terms of passenger vehicles. [168] 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.
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 ...
Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country ...
[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 ...
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 ]
Part of the reason why the homicides rose in Nuevo Laredo in 2004 is due to the fact that the Sinaloa Cartel moved into the city after the capture of the Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (2003) because they believed their rivals were weak. By 2005, the Mexican government flooded Nuevo Laredo with extra law enforcement personnel. [16] [17]