Matamoros, Mexico News

Juan Roberto Rincon-Rincon, one of the highest ranking members of the Gulf Cartel, has been ordered to federal prison for life following his convictions related to a large drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Vincent Iglio, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations ... (more)

Jamie Fernandez , who's eight and a half years old, recently moved to Maryville from Matamoros, Mexico, along with his mom and little brother, to join his father.

LITTLE ROCK, AR - Federal prosecutors in Arkansas say a high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel has been charged in a cocaine conspiracy.

Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Randall C. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Little Rock Field Office announced that a 25-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on May 2, 2013, was unsealed today charging sixteen defendants in Arkansas, Texas, ... (more)

The problem with traveling to eat is that by 11 a.m., with terrible coffee, pastries, tortillas and seafood in my stomach, I was full to the point of wanting nothing more than a nap in an air-conditioned room.

At least 11 people, including a soldier, died in three shootouts between army troops and armed civilians in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the state government said Sunday.

Juan Carlos De La Cruz Reyna, a former Gulf Cartel henchman, who is charged in the same thick indictment as the group's leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen , is asking the United States to send him home.

The cartel, led at the time by Osiel CA rdenas GuillA©n , now serving time in a U.S. prison, began expanding from its base in Matamoros, at the confluence of the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexicoaccording to testimony last week at a federal money laundering trial.