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The Latest Breaking News from Tamaulipas

U.S. and Canada Update Travel Advisory For Those Traveling to Sinaloa Due to Ongoing Cartel Violence

Latin Times

She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas.

“When I see a mom with her child trying to cross, it's like I see myself in her.”

Texas Observer

Mexico Owes The U.S. a Great Amount Of Water; Here's How It's Planning To Repay It

Mexican officials are proposing to utilize overflow from recent heavy rains, which are currently causing reservoir levels in Tamaulipas to exceed capacity

Latin Times

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Volunteers find human remains and bones in suspected cartel 'kitchen' in border state of Tamaulipas

Only Jalisco (14,991) has more reported cases of missing people in Mexico than Tamaulipas (13,228) so far this year

Latin Times

Mexican business leader is killed in border town after complaining about cartel extorsions on TV

Oxxo, Mexico's largest chain of convenience stores, closed 191 stores in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, due to cartel violence

Latin Times

The State Department is warning against all travel to this new place

The "do not travel" warning comes amid a spike in kidnappings and crime.

The Street

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico warns people traveling to Matamoros amid recent kidnappings

The state of Tamaulipas is the only Mexican border state to which the State Department has assigned a Level 4 designation, the same severity as Afghanistan.

Latin Times

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Rio Grande Valley leaders hope to rebrand region as “RioPlex” to attract investment

After years of competing with each other for new businesses, Valley cities want to present a united front to highlight the region’s assets.

The Texas Tribune

Alberto, season's first named tropical storm, dumps rain on Texas and Mexico, which reports 3 deaths

Tropical Storm Alberto is rumbling toward northeast Mexico as the first named storm of the season, carrying heavy rains that left three people dead but also brought hope to a region suffering under a prolonged, severe drought

The Independent UK

A Houston woman applied for a green card. She was banned from the U.S. for a decade.

Claudia González was 15 when she crossed the border into Texas to reunite with her mother. Now she’s back in Mexico, separated from her 15-year-old son and her husband in Houston.

The Texas Tribune

Migrants are Increasingly Being Kidnapped at the Texas-Tamaulipas Border, Report Shows

Tamaulipas now bears a "level four—do not travel" designation from the State Department, akin to Afghanistan's danger level

Latin Times

Mexico's Marines Detain Alleged Leader Of Gulf Drug Cartel

Mexico's Navy Department issued a statement, saying the marines detained "one of the key leaders of one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Tamaulipas."

Latin Times

Mexican Officials Rescue 31 Migrants Kidnapped By Gunmen

The secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Luisa María Alcalde Luján, took to social media, and wrote, "Governor Américo Villareal has just informed us that the 31 migrants kidnapped in Tamaulipas were rescued safely."

Latin Times

Roof Collapse At Mexican Church Kills Nine During Mass

Tragedy strikes as a roof caves in, leaving casualties and injuries during a church service in Ciudad Madero.

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WEKU

11 are dead after a church roof collapses in Mexico

Authorities called off the search early Monday. After initially fearing that dozens could still be trapped under the rubble, searches led them to believe no one remained unaccounted for.

France 24

Video shows Mexican cartel with a working AT4 rocket launcher? Here’s what we know

A video widely shared on social media in late May shows a man, wearing a bulletproof vest marked with the logo of a Mexican cartel, carrying a weapon that looks like an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher. The Russian ambassador to Mexico joined in the debate about the video on Twitter,…

Dynamite News

Mexico: 26 killed in fiery road crash with cargo van ramming into trailer in Tamaulipas

At least 26 people have died in a fiery road accident involving a cargo van and a trailer in the state of Tamaulipas in northern Mexico. Read further on Dynamite News:

Daily Mirror

Mexican cartels' five WORST massacres from burning down casino to bloody prison riot

The drug cartels, such as the fearsome Los Zetas based in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, that run the drug routes into the US wage nearly constant war with the authorities, rival cartels and even between internal factions

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Daily Mirror

Inside Mexico's most brutal cartel Los Zetas who massacred 193 bus passengers

Since their bloody split with the Gulf Cartel, this new group has been in constant war with their parent cartel for control over the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas

Al Jazeera

Former Mexican presidential candidate sentenced to US prison

Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, ex-governor of Tamaulipas, is accused of using $3.5m in bribes to buy property in the US.

Daily Mirror

Inside Scorpions drug gang that 'assumed responsibility' for deadly kidnaps in Mexico

Five men tied up and left for the police to seize as an 'apology' for the kidnappings are believed to be members of the 'Scorpions', a group known for its brutality and use of military-style tactics

The Independent UK

Mexican drug cartel ‘apologises’ for deadly kidnapping of four Americans, blaming rogue members

An unnamed Tamaulipas state law enforcement official leaked a letter believed to be authored by the Gulf drug cartel

The Independent UK

One million people do it every year. But after the tummy tuck murders, how safe is it to seek healthcare in Mexico?

The killing of two US citizens on their way to a Mexican clinic is a stark warning for the nearly one million Americans who cross the border for medical care each year, Io Dodds reports

Daily Mirror

Mexico kidnapping victim forced to watch friends die had feared for safety before trip

Zindell Brown, one of the two found dead in Matamoros had expressed concerns over their safety before travelling to Tamaulipas, Mexico. Latavia McGee said she and Eric James Williams watched him and Shaeed Woodard get killed

The Independent UK

One million people do it every year. But after the tummy tuck murders, how safe is it to seek healthcare in Mexico?

The killing of two US citizens on their way to a Mexican clinic is a stark warning for the nearly one million Americans who cross the border for medical care each year, Io Dodds reports

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