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Gulf drug cartel ‘believed to be’ behind attack. The governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, said during a press conference that the group was moved from different locations, including a ...
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Juan García Abrego [3] [4] (Spanish pronunciation: [xwɑŋ ɡaɾˈsia aˈβɾeɣo]; born September 13, 1944) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He started in the cartel under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra.
[20] [21] On 11 March, in response to the Matamoros kidnappings and the disappearance of three women from Texas in the same area in late February, the Texas Department of Public Safety urged people in the state to refrain from traveling anywhere in Mexico during the upcoming spring break holiday because of ongoing drug cartel violence and other ...
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Los Ciclones is a faction of the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel.This faction was created in 2015, with the Cártel del Noreste and Los Metros as its main enemies. Los Ciclones had as their area of influence the US-Mexico border crossing between Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas.
The assassination also happened a day after the Mexican Navy dismantled a network of the Gulf Cartel in three municipalities across Tamaulipas, where 35 cartel members were arrested. [29] Ricardo Salazar Pequeño, the regional boss of the cartel in Ciudad Miguel Alemán, along with the cartel's accountant Gabriela Gómez Robles, were ...
Hugo Baldomero Medina Garza (born 1958) is a Mexican drug lord and leader of the Gulf Cartel.He is known as El Señor Padrino de los Tráilers ("Lord of the Trailers") for shipping large sums of Colombian narcotics in trucks through Mexico, to later smuggle them across the international border into the United States.