ers. Martinez returned and was able to grab Valeria, but the current swept them both away. ... "Details of the incident were confirmed Tuesday by a Tamaulipas government official ... and by Martinez's mother back in El Salvador, Rosa Ramirez, who spoke with her daughter-in-law by phone afterward. ... Ram

gn of such large-scale moving of people away from the border before now, after the program expanded to Nuevo Laredo in violence- and cartel-plagued Tamaulipas, a state where the US State Department warns against all travel due to kidnappings and other crime." Mexico's Murder Rate Hit Record High In 2018.

eports Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed on Thursday that Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is corrupt. In support of his claim, Lopez Obrador showed a copy of a recent letter that was "sent by the US Embassy's legal attaché." The letter r

d the two newly arrested suspects also appeared to be members of the same cartel. The two were arrested during raids in the northern border state of Tamaulipas on Sunday and flown to Mexico City on a military plane. It was not immediately clear why the arrests were not announced at the time. The article add

west to east, are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The Mexican states are Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. In the United States, Texas has the longest stretch of the border of any State, while California has the shortest. In Mexico, Chihuahua has the lo

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