Mexican authorities are investigating a video appearing to depict cartel members holding female bar hostesses at gunpoint. The men are shown extorting “protection money” from the women, forcing them to lie on the floor as they state their demands. “Yes, yes, yes.
Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas. At one point, gunmen forced middle-school students off a school bus and used the vehicle as a blockade. Roads were quickly cleared and officials claimed
One week after two Americans were killed and two others were kidnapped by a drug cartel just south of the border in Matamoros, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that calls for U.S. military action against drug trafficking organizations are “irresponsible.”