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Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. As a result, the Gulf Cartel has been letting its members turn to armed robberies, kidnappings, and extortions as a way to cover their expenses.Įditor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. These lockdowns negatively impacted their drug and human smuggling operations into Texas.

The action comes at a time when the criminal organization has been adversely impacted by the various lockdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The attack comes at a time when the Gulf Cartel has been actively knocking down police surveillance cameras throughout the border city of Reynosa, Breitbart Texas reported. The vehicle and abandoned weapons found inside the SUV were seized. They called for the body to be taken to the morgue. State police investigators arrived and began to document the crime scene. As authorities approached the vehicle they found the body of one gunman inside. Shortly after, one of the cartel vehicles stopped near a brushy area and several gunmen ran away. This lead to a chase as police officers tried to stop them. As additional officers arrived, the cartel gunmen tried to flee. The officers attempted to fight off the attack and called for backup. when a squad of police officers patrolling near the Las Fuentes neighborhood came under attack from a group of between 10-12 SUVs and pickup trucks carrying Gulf Cartel gunmen, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Tamaulipas law enforcement sources revealed. The shootout took place on Sunday shortly after 3 a.m. The convoy began a short but intense shootout that left one cartel operator dead. Reforma reported 12 suspects were detained and in custody of the city’s anti-kidnapping unit.REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – A convoy of more than ten SUVs and pickup trucks filled with Gulf Cartel gunmen attempted to ambush a squad of police officers in the border city of Reynosa. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said “several” suspects were detained after the attack. The shootout lasted for several minutes and claimed the lives of two police officers and at least one bystander, a 27-year-old woman who was in a nearby car with her husband and two daughters, the local daily newspaper Reforma reported. The early morning attack in a residential part of the nation’s capital was brazen: Gunmen ambushed García Harfuch by blocking the road with a utility truck and then firing thousands of rounds from high-caliber rifles at his vehicle, according to multiple reports. He blamed Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación for the attack. Public Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch tweeted from a hospital bed that he was hit by three bullets and shrapnel. Mexico City’s police chief was wounded early Friday as his bulletproof SUV was riddled by bullets in an alleged assassination attempt by a drug cartel.
