[48], Humberto Garca brego, brother of Juan Garca brego, tried to take the lead of the Gulf Cartel, but ultimately failed in his attempt. It is believed the Mexican government knew all Garca brego's whereabouts all along and had refused to arrest him due to information he possessed about the extent of corruption within the government. They came under fire shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, at the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast, the FBI said in a statement Sunday. [36] His prosecutors, however, tried Garca brego as a U.S. citizen because he also had an American birth certificate, although Mexican authorities claimed the certificate was "fraudulent. [183] Like other drug trafficking organizations, the Gulf Cartel also subverts government institutions, particularly at state and local levels, by using their large profits to bribe officials. . [319], Bribery Zalandria Brown said Zindell Brown, who lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and two friends were with a third friend who was going to Mexico for "tummy tuck" cosmetic surgery. The high level of legitimate travel and movement of goods and services between border cities in the U.S. and Mexico facilitates the drug business in the area. [323], FBI agents have claimed that the Gulf Cartel moves millions of dollars in cash through the Rio Grande Valley each month, a tempting amount for many U.S. [54] His luck ended in November 2000 when he was captured in Tampico, Tamaulipas and imprisoned in La Palma. [112] The U.S. federal court awarded two helicopters owned by Crdenas to the Business Development Bank of Canada and the GE Canada Equipment Financing respectively. [352] Due to its multifaceted transportation networks and proximity to major production areas right across the border in Mexico, Texas is a major hub for drug trafficking. [138], The confrontations started around 10:00am, and extended to 06:00pm, around the time Crdenas Guiln was killed. Before the standoff, he was regarded as a minor player in the international drug trade, but this incident catapulted his reputation and made him one of the most-wanted criminals. [197] Although cocaine is not grown in Africa, Mexican organizations, such as the Gulf Cartel, are currently exploiting West Africa's struggling rule-of-law caused by war, crime and poverty, to stage and expand supply routes to the increasingly lucrative European illegal drug market. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images) The recent armed attack on four U.S. citizens in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, illustrated well-documented security risks in Mexico's many crime hotspots, where gang and cartel violence disrupts daily life and hinders business operations. [206] Confrontations between these two groups have paralyzed entire cities in broad daylight. [235] He won under the slogan "winds of change are coming" to Tamaulipas. By Ken Dilanian and Minyvonne Burke. U.S. But as of the end of the 2020 fiscal year Wednesday, that figure dipped below 1,000, according to . After Osiel Crdenas Guilln took full control of the Gulf Cartel in 1999, he found himself in a no-holds-barred fight to keep his notorious organization and leadership untouched, and sought out members of the Mexican Army Special Forces to become the military armed-wing of the Gulf Cartel. [50] He was to be replaced by scar Malherbe de Len and Ral Valladares del ngel, until their arrest a short time later,[51] causing several cartel lieutenants to fight for the leadership. EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) - The Mexican army is reporting the capture of a top Sinaloa cartel operative in the state of Chihuahua and the killing of a Gulf cartel leader in Matamoros, Mexico.. An army unit based in Madera, Chihuahua, engaged in a firefight with members of a cell of the Sinaloa cartel on Friday in the town of La Nortea; the shootout led to the capture of Francisco . condemned the violence and purportedly will turn over its own members. "[63] Consequently, Guzmn Decenas deserted from the Armed Forces and brought more than 30 army deserters to form part of Crdenas' new criminal paramilitary wing. [230] In addition, La Jornada mentions that the Gulf Cartel owns "all of Matamoros", where they act as the State itself and conduct all forms of criminal activities. [90] After his capture, Crdenas was sent to the federal, high-security prison La Palma. [35] Wearing slacks and a striped shirt, Garca brego was immediately extradited to the United States where he was interviewed by an FBI agent, and confessed to have "ordered people murdered and tortured", bribed top Mexican officials, and smuggled tons of narcotics into the United States. During a news briefing on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Ned Price confirmed that the two survivors from the attack had been returned to the U.S. "[260] The Joint Operation Nuevo Len-Tamaulipas issued in 2007, along with several other military-led operation by the federal government, have brought thousands of troops to restore order in Tamaulipas. [178] Crdenas Vela had held a grudge on Flores Borrego and the Metros because he believed that they had led the Mexican military to track down and kill his uncle Antonio Crdenas Guilln on 5 November 2010. [236] While his election did not have that much substance in a public policy perspective, its rhetoric of a peaceful transition, enabled him to defeat by double digits the candidate from the ruling party, Baltazar Manuel Hinijosa Ochoa. [296] The Mexican military mentioned that in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, where the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas fight for territory, abductions are carried out very commonly. Agencias de inteligencia de Estados Unidos espiaron a miembros del Crtel del Golfo el mes pasado, cuando un grupo de hombres armados secuestraron a cuatro viajeros norteamericanos en Matamoros, dos de ellos perdieron la vida. [151][152][153][154][155] Although not confirmed, KVEO-TV, several online sources and witnesses, along with one law enforcement officer who preferred to keep his name anonymous, mentioned that more than 100 people died that day in Matamoros. [321] He is allegedly reported to have been protected by a large private army of gunmen. [205] In the midsts of violence and panic, local authorities and the media tried to minimize the situation and claim that "nothing was occurring", but the facts were impossible to cover up. Moreover, through handwritten notes, Crdenas gave orders on the movement of drugs along Mexico and to the United States, approved executions, and signed forms to allow the purchase of police forces. [289], Protection racketeering As El Universal writes, SESNSP data shows that "from January 1 to June 24 of 2020, about 9.9 homicides occur each day, or a murder every 2.4 hours, an unprecedented statistic for [Guanajuato]." In 2019, Guanajuato registered the highest number of organized crime related homicides with 2,673 cases, according to Reforma. [241], On 25 March 2010, in the city of Matamoros, 40 inmates escaped from a federal prison. A city of northeast Mexico near the mouth of the Rio Grande opposite Brownsville, Texas. [39] Hours after the judge told Garca brego that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison, the death penalty was out of the question for the prosecutors. The intense shootings provoked the temporary closure of three international bridges in Matamoros,[139] along with the University of Texas at Brownsville, just across the border. [310] La Jornada mentioned that before the rupture with Los Zetas in 2007, the corridor of Reynosa, Tamaulipas was often used for human smuggling. [164] Banners written by Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel's former armed wing, appeared all across Mexico, celebrating the death of Crdenas Guilln. [262] On 7 November 2011, about 1,660 policemen were released from their duties because they had either failed their control tests or refused to take them. The agency's San Antonio Division office said in a statement Sunday that the vehicle came under fire shortly after it entered Mexico. [27] On 14 January 1996, Garca brego was arrested outside a ranch in Monterrey, Nuevo Len. Some experts believed that the death of Antonio Crdenas would be dreadful for the Gulf Cartel, and that Los Zetas would overthrow them and eventually take control of Tamaulipas. On March 3, theU.S. Consulate issued an alertabout violence in Matamoros and local authorities warned people to shelter in place. [59] Los Zetas, as they are known, served as the hired private mercenary army of the Gulf Cartel. The latter was released from prison months earlier even though he was scheduled to serve 16-years behind bars in January. [19] It grew significantly in the 1970s under the leadership of kingpin Juan Garca brego. [259] In June 2011, the state government of Tamaulipas requested the federal government to send in troops to combat the drug cartels in the area, to "consolidate actions on public safety" and "strengthen the capacity of their institutions. [193] Reports indicated that the Gulf Cartel was using the BlackBerry smartphones to communicate with 'Ndrangheta, since the texts are "normally difficult to intercept". [117], Nevertheless, other sources also reveal that Antonio Crdenas Guilln, brother of Osiel and one of the successors of the Gulf Cartel, was addicted to gambling, sex, and drugs, leading Los Zetas to consider his leadership as a threat to the organization. [309], Before 2010, it was not clear whether the Gulf Cartel controls the human trafficking business in its territory or whether it simply taxes operators for using their smuggling corridors. The first woman is walking and sits in the back of the truck; the other two people seem to be unresponsive, but their condition is unknown. [291] This practice of extorting money from people is also seen in the human trafficking business in Mexico; the cartels threaten smugglers to pay a fee for using the corridors, and if they refuse to pay, drug traffickers respond in a deadly form. Booksurge, 2008. [57] After this, Osiel Crdenas Guilln took control of the cartel in July 1999 after assassinating Salvador Gmez Herrera alias El Chava, co-leader of the Gulf Cartel and close friend of him, earning his name as the Mata Amigos (Friend Killer). In Sicario: Day of Soldado (2018) the CIA framed the Matamoros Cartel for killing the antagonists men to intentionally start a cartel war between rivals. The incident escalated as Crdenas Guilln threatened to kill them if they did not comply and as his gunmen prepared to shoot. [268] After a dispute, however, Crdenas ordered Arellano beaten, and the Gulf-Tijuana alliance ceased to exist at that point. "I understand we may have more to share from the FBI at the appropriate time.". 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[275] Mario Crdenas Guilln, brother of both Osiel and Antonio, became one of the top lieutenants in the organization after his release from prison in 2007. Someone claiming to be from thecartel allegedly responsible for the abduction of four Americans and the killing of two of them has condemned the violence and purportedly will turn over its own members who were involved to authorities. Gunmen burst into the clinic and shot everyone inside, killing 7 innocent people. The ransom is $2.5 million USD. But the cartel has lost territory and influence in recent years to its rivals, according to the think tank InSight Crime. The buses made great transportation, as Antonio Ortiz noted since they were never stopped at the border. [178] Each of these groups were identified by their radio codes: the Rojos (The Red ones) were based in Reynosa; the Metros were headquartered in Matamoros; and the Lobos (The wolves) were established in Laredo. The Gulf Cartel, along with their rival group Los Zetas, have been the two drug cartels with the most kidnappings in all of Mexico, and "more than half of the country's kidnappings are attributed to them. Matamoros, founded in 1824, was the scene of bitter fighting in the Mexican-American War and was occupied by U.S. troops in 1846. [87], The former leader of the Gulf Cartel, Osiel Crdenas Guilln, was captured in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on 14 March 2003, in a shootout between the Mexican military and Gulf Cartel gunmen. After his imprisonment a short time later, Jorge Madrazo Cullar created the National Public Security System (SNSP), to fight the drug cartels along the U.S.Mexico border. [16][17] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Crtel de Matamoros),[18] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S.[17] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings, a car theft network, and other illegal smuggling. [25][26], Garca brego's business had grown to such length that the FBI placed him on the Top Ten Most Wanted in 1995. Those who were more loyal to the Crdenas family stayed with the Rojos, while those loyal to Jorge Eduardo Costilla Snchez, like Flores Borrego, defended the Metros. To increase the ranks of their cartel after the deaths or arrests of their members; To exterminate members of their rival gangs; To kidnap people for money and other ransom. To use the seas, the cartel also implemented the use of narco submarines. Drug Wars: Narco Warfare in the twenty-first century. Tras el secuestro de cuatro estadounidenses en Matamoros, Tamaulipas, las agencias de inteligencia de Estados Unidos interceptaron las comunicaciones de integrantes del Crtel del Golfo, indica informacin clasificada revelada por el diario The Washington Post.. Los documentos clasificados del Pentgono fueron filtrados a travs de la plataforma Discord, la mayora conteniendo . [80], Upon the arrest of the Gulf Cartel boss Crdenas in 2003 and his extradition in 2007, the panorama for Los Zetas changedthey started to become synonymous with the Gulf Cartel, and their influences grew within the organization. [245] Reports first indicated that there were 71 fugitives, but the correct figures were later released. For years, a night out in Matamoros was also part of the "two-nation vacation" for spring breakers flocking to Texas' South Padre Island. [89] According to government archives, this six-month military operation was planned and carried out in secret; the only people informed were the President Vicente Fox, the Secretary of Defense in Mexico, Ricardo Clemente Vega Garca, and Mexico's Attorney General, Rafael Macedo de la Concha. The war expenses and diminished income amid the pandemic are pushing gunmen into crimes of opportunity which directly impact innocent locals. [33], Further theories put forward to allege the arrest of Garca brego was to satisfy U.S. demands and meet certification, from the Department of Justice (DOJ), as a trade partner, the vote set to take place on 1 March. 11 Sep 2020. [184], The Gulf Cartel has important cells operating inside the United Statesin Mission, Roma, and Rio Grande Cityfor example, and their presence is expanding. In June 2019, Carlos Abraham Ros Surez, also known as El Oaxaco, was arrested. [336], Arms trafficking The rupture from Los Zetas left Jorge Eduardo Costilla Snchez and Antonio Crdenas Guilln in full control of the Gulf Cartel. [317] Many of the extortions are first carried out on the phone. [63] In response to the rising power of the Gulf Cartel, the rival Sinaloa Cartel[77] established a heavily armed, well-trained enforcer group known as Los Negros. The Americans were found as a result of joint search operations, according to the attorney general in Tamaulipas, but how officials ultimately located and rescued them remains unclear. [147] Moreover, several bystanders also recorded the shootouts. "[295] And, there are several kidnapping rings of the Gulf Cartel throughout several parts of Tamaulipas. said that she warned police when the group didn't return on schedule. [200] The clash between these two groups first happened in Reynosa, Tamaulipas and then expanded to Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros. [202] Soon, the violence generated between these two groups had spread to Tamaulipas' neighboring states of Nuevo Len and Veracruz. By negotiating with the Cali Cartel,[20] Garca brego was able to secure 50% of the shipment out of Colombia as payment for delivery, instead of the US$1,500 per kilogram they were previously receiving. The majority of the commerce between the United States and Mexico passes through the state of Texas. [231] In mid-2010, Eugenio Hernndez Flores, the governor of Tamaulipas and scar Luebbert Gutirrez, the mayor of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, both members of the PRI, were criticized for claiming that there were no armed confrontations in Tamaulipas and that the violence was "only a rumor. Americans who survived Matamoros cartel kidnapping break silence on 'nightmare' in Mexico. [117] Also, Los Zetas mentioned that the Gulf Cartel also kills innocent civilians, and then blames them for their atrocities. [350] Among these gangs, that range from street gangs to prison gangs, are the Texas Syndicate, the Latin Kings, the Mexican Mafia, Puro Tango Blast (Vallucos), the Hermandad de Pistoleros Latinos, and the Tri-City Bombersall based in the Rio Grande Valley and Webb County, Texas. [348], Transportation The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. Court documents indicated that Garca brego was bribing several law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and politicians on both sides on the border to keep himself impune and untouched. [242] Authorities are still trying to understand how the prisoners escaped. The video appears to show some of them may be wounded. [210] Consequently, Los Zetas joined forces with the Beltrn Leyva Cartel and the Tijuana Cartel to counterattack the opposing cartels. The creation of Los Zetas brought a new era of drug trafficking in Mexico, and little did Crdenas know that he was creating the most violent drug cartel in the country. [91] However, it was believed that Crdenas still controlled the Gulf Cartel from prison,[92] and was later extradited to the United States, where he was sentenced to 25 years in a prison in Houston, Texas for money laundering, drug trafficking and death threats to U.S. federal agents. Both the Mexican and U.S. government increased their efforts to apprehend Crdenas Guilln. A woman who traveled to the Mexican border with the four Americans who were kidnapped said that she warned police when the group didn't return on schedule. [145], The Guardian newspaper mentioned that in a YouTube video, a convoy of SUV's filled with gunmen and pickups packed with marines were seen in a chase through the streets of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. MATAMOROS, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO Oct 23 (Reuters) - A car chase and shootout between gang members and law enforcement near Mexico's northern border, left three members of the powerful Gulf Cartel dead along with one bystander, officials said on Saturday, October 23rd. [38] According to The Brownsville Herald, Garca brego went into the courtroom grinning and talking animatedly with his lawyers who helped him translate his words from Spanish into the English language. Mexican federal and state officials escorted the two surviving Americans to an international bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border, the attorney general in Tamaulipas, the state where Matamoros is located, confirmed in atweetposted Tuesday afternoon. Login . [208] The bloodbath in Tamaulipas has caused thousands of deaths, but most of shootings and body counts often go unreported. They began to organize kidnappings;[74] impose taxes, collect debts, and operate protection rackets;[75] control the extortion business;[76] securing cocaine supply and trafficking routes known as plazas (zones) and executing its foes, often with grotesque savagery. [318] --> [34], Upon his capture outside the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Len, the drug lord was flown to Mexico City where U.S. federal agent took him on a private plane to Houston, Texas. "We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline," the letter reads, adding that those individuals had gone against the cartel's rules, which include "respecting the life and well-being of the innocent.". Here is what else we know so far about the case. [84], The standoff triggered a massive law enforcement effort to crackdown on the leadership structure of the Gulf Cartel. [220] After the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 to the National Action Party (PAN), the arrangement between the government and the cartels was lost, as well the pax mafiosa. [335] The Economist mentioned in 1997 that the drug money from the Gulf Cartel in the Rio Grande Valley was perhaps moving about $20billion, and that around 15% of the retailers' gains were from drug money. [144] And even after the drug lord was killed, the roadblocks continued throughout the rest of the day. Updated on: March 7, 2023 / 4:21 PM For the most part, the arms trafficking circles of the Gulf Cartel operate directly across the border in the United States, just like most of the criminal groups in Mexico. [171] According to reports by the Mexican government, Los Escorpiones was created by Antonio Crdenas Guillen and is composed of over 60 civilians, former police officers, and ex-military officials. according to the think tank InSight Crime. [278] Below is the basic structure of the cartel: It's worth noting that there are other operating groups within the drug cartels. But on 24 February 2010, hundreds of trucks marked with C.D.G, XXX, and M3 (the insignias of the Gulf Cartel) began to hit the streets of northern Tamaulipas. / CBS/AP. It is the first time in 87 years, a governor from the opposition wins in the state. MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas - A police raid targeting a narco-ranch led to protests and mass blockades this week. [306] FBI investigators said that victims are "kidnapped, threatened, assaulted, drugged and transported into Mexico to meet with Cartel members. The drug organizations usually use the Interstates 10, 20, 25, 30, and 35, as well as U.S. [201] The war then spread out through 11 municipalities of Tamaulipas, 9 of them bordering the state of Texas. [212], In June 2020, Insight Crime journalist Victoria Dittmar claimed that the Gulf Cartel had undergone "fragmentation" at some point in time. [109] Crdenas has been isolated from interacting with other prisoners in the supermax prison he is in. [113], It is unclear which of the two the Gulf Cartel or Los Zetas started the conflict that led to their break up. [71], One of the first missions of Los Zetas was to eradicate Los Chachos, a group of drug traffickers under the orders of the Milenio Cartel, who disputed the drug corridors of Tamaulipas with the Gulf Cartel in 2003. While in prison, Crdenas and Arellano formed an alliance to defend themselves from the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels,[267] who had also allied with each other, and were planning to take over the smuggling routes and territories of the Gulf and Tijuana Cartel. [311] People smuggling is currently controlled by a cell within the Gulf Cartel known as Los Flacos, dedicated to the kidnapping and smuggling of undocumented migrants as far as South America to the United States. Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat . Matamoros synonyms, Matamoros pronunciation, Matamoros translation, English dictionary definition of Matamoros. Information and translations of Matamoros in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. [142] When the Mexican authorities reached the spot where Antonio Crdenas (Tony Tormenta) was present, the gunmen received the soldiers and cops with grenades and high-calibre shots. Mexican authorities found the Americans in a wooden shack guarded by a man who was arrested in the rural Ejido Tecolote area east of Matamoros on the way to the Gulf area called "Bagdad Beach," according to the state's chief prosecutor, Irving Barrios. Officials previouslyconfirmedthat a Mexican citizen was killed in the initial attack. [30] Juan Garca brego is currently serving 11 life terms in a maximum security prison in Colorado, U.S.[31] In 1996, it was disclosed that Garca brego's organization paid millions of dollars in bribes to politicians and law enforcement officers for his protection. October 25, 2021. He served as head of cartel's operations in Oaxaca. On Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. officials said two of the four U.S. citizens were found dead and two are alive. [178][179] Other sources indicate that the infighting could have been caused by the suspicions that the Rojos were "too soft" on the Gulf cartel's bitter enemy, Los Zetas. With the arrest of one of Garca brego's traffickers, Juan Antonio Ortiz, it became known the cartel would ship tons of cocaine in the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) buses between the years of 1986 to 1990. They pointedly noted that they had carried out executions and kidnappings under orders of the Gulf Cartel when they served as their enforcers, and they were created by them for that sole purpose. The state of Tamaulipas is the stronghold of the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest and most powerful of Mexico's criminal groups. In goes into the extent, in a recent book called Tamaulipas; La casta de los narcogobernadores: un eastern mexicano is accused of being present while former governor Tomas Yarrington, also accused of involvements with DTOs of the Gulf Cartel, received illicit money from the Gulf Cartel to finance its campaign for governor. It was later proven after his arrest that the deputy attorney general in charge of Mexico's federal Judicial Police had accumulated more than US$9million for protecting Garca brego. Reports mention that Antonio Crdenas was being protected by the Los Escorpiones (The Scorpions), the alleged armed wing of the Gulf Cartel and the personal army of Antonio Crdenas, who was serving as snipers and bodyguards for him. [72] This gang was controlled by Dionisio Romn Garca Snchez alias El Chacho, who had decided to betray the Gulf Cartel and switch his alliance with the Tijuana Cartel; however, he was eventually killed by Los Zetas. [131][132], Costilla was often viewed as the "strongest leader" of the two, but collaborated with Antonio Crdenas, who acted as representative of his jailed brother. [324] Much of the money stays in the area, which has caused several officialsboth federal and stateto succumb to the "easy money aspect" the drug money has to offer. MATAMOROS, Mexico, March 9 (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel members on Thursday handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the abduction of four Americans . 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