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The 19-year-old and a friend were going to hang out across the bridge in Nuevo Progreso, a small border town just a 45-minute drive from the Bagwells’ home in Mission, a city of 80,000 in the ...
On 14 May 2013 at around 6 p.m., Torres crossed the Progreso–Nuevo Progreso International Bridge from Texas into Mexico to visit his father and other relatives at their ranch at La Barranca, a rural community near the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
On 13 May 2002, the Gulf Cartel kidnapped López Falcón's associate García Sánchez in Monterrey; [76] he was tortured and killed, and his corpse was abandoned in Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, a few days later. [77] Killings and attacks between the Gulf Cartel and López Falcón's faction continued in Nuevo León through the rest of the year.
Mexico City 44-400 Government troops massacred between 44 (officially) and 400 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre. Huehuetlán el Chico massacre
Mexico’s long war against drug cartels began in late 2006, when former president Felipe Calderón deployed 50,000 soldiers onto the nation’s streets, leading to a surge in violence and ...
After several years of declines, Mexico's homicide rate has started to rise, with the total body count for the first half of 2016 the highest since 2012.
The Progreso-Nuevo Progreso International Bridge connects the town with Progreso Lakes, Texas. The 2010 census showed a population of 10,178 inhabitants. Nuevo Progreso is known as one of the safest border towns in Tamaulipas, and is a popular medical tourism destination. There are over 100 dentists and 100 pharmacies in the five-block center ...
Far from receding during the pandemic, Mexico’s homicide rate actually rose during March as the country started lockdowns to combat the coronavirus, accordingg to figures provided Friday by the ...