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The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [1] [2] It initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. but grew significantly in the 1970s under the leadership of kingpin Juan García Ábrego. [3]
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 ...
A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members of its gang for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros.. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained ...
On 7 March 2023, the missing Americans were located by security forces in El Tecolote, an ejido 10 km (6.2 mi) southeast of where they had been abducted in Matamoros. [9] Woodard and Brown were dead. Williams had three gunshot wounds to his leg and McGee had no physical injuries; the two were taken to the border shortly after their discovery ...
A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained by the ...
Video seemingly showed the moment Latavia ‘Tay’ Mcgee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were kidnapped in Matamoros - an area dominated by the Gulf drug cartel
As a foot soldier, she was responsible for fighting off cells of Los Metros, a rival faction of Los Ciclones, a Gulf Cartel subgroup she belonged to. She was found dead on 13 April 2015, when Mexican authorities discovered her dismembered body inside an ice cooler at a parking lot in Matamoros .
A Mexican police investigator inspects the minivan where four Americans where shot and taken from the previous week, at the Tamaulipas State Prosecutor headquarters in Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday ...