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The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
The Sinaloa Cartel's return to Nuevo Laredo, however, was seen again in March 2012 after Guzmán reportedly left several corpses and a message heralding his return. [164] According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , Nuevo Laredo is the busiest border crossing in terms of truck crossings with over 1.7 million trucks a year, more than ...
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.
A video shared on X claims to show President-elect Donald Trump’s name being taken off a hotel in Panama. Verdict: Misleading While the video does show people removing Trump’s name from a ...
Trump also ordered 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border to boost the military presence there. ... Billion-dollar Mexican cartel ops disrupted by Trump's border crackdown as US issues do ...
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 ...
Los Zetas was named after its first commander, Arturo Guzmán Decena, whose Federal Judicial Police radio code was "Z1", [35] a code given to high-ranking officers. [36] [37] [38] The radio code for commanding Federal Judicial Police officers in Mexico was "Y" and those officers are nicknamed "Yankees", while Federal Judicial Police in charge of a city was codenamed "Z"; thus they were ...
[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 ...