Brown compared the level of violence in Tamaulipas to the Middle East. "[It] wasn't that long ago before [the] Sinaloa Cartel was executing police officers and hanging them from bridges," Brown said.

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued a travel advisory for American citizens traveling to the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas warning them over recent criminal activity at different ...

Nor are religious days a refuge for the inhabitants of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, where alleged hit men of the Northeast Cartel were caught throwing eggs last Easter Sunday. Through social networks ...