The future of the recently elected governor in Tamaulipas, one of Mexico’s most criminally infested states, depends on punishing his predecessors for past sins of corruption and collusion with ...

Mexico’s Tamaulipas state was the site of nearly 60 percent of the country’s kidnappings in July and saw a drastic spike in the crime compared to previous months, highlighting the government’s ...

Mexico's attorney general's office has asked lawmakers to strip the governor of the violent northern state of Tamaulipas of his immunity, alleging probable cause for money laundering and ties to ...

REYNOSA, Mexico — A year ago, 37-year-old Israel Castillo Mendoza lost his well-paying job with an oil company. He landed another job, but it was at half the salary. His wife had to go to work at one ...

Matamoros, a city in the state of Tamaulipas, has a population of more than 500,000 people and is located just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas. The US State Department has issued a ...

Mexico City, Jul 9 (EFE).Mexico City, Jul 9 (EFE). — Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy, while conducting a ground patrol in Reynosa municipality in the state of Tamaulipas, found a stash of weapons ...

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — In his first state address since taking office a year ago, Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca touted advances in the fight against organized crime and pledged to ...

From the times of Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, founder of the Cartel de Matamoros, to Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, leader of Los Zetas, drug trafficking has been one of the most profitable illegal business ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon left office almost four years ago, but during his six-year term he presided over one of the most violent ...

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say they have found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from Texas in an area that has seen violent territorial disputes ...