Attorney General's Office Tamaulipas state delegate Ernesto Vásquez Reyna was killed in the middle of the busiest avenue of ...

The government of the Mexican border town of Reynosa is working with American NGOs and migrant aid workers to move a downtown migrant encampment to help protect asylum seekers from cartel ...

Cartel forces in Reynosa are known as the Metros and have fought members based in Matamoros, known as the Ciclones, in ongoing turf battles over the past few months.

Mexico's northeastern border state of Tamaulipas—just across from Texas' Gulf Coast—has, for years, been engulfed in an under-reported war, as the Gulf Cartel and its rogue offspring the Zetas ...

REYNOSA, MEXICO — This usually bustling border city has been paralyzed by fear after a week of gunbattles by warring drug cartel factions — and sometimes between gangsters and Mexican army ...

In the battle in Reynosa, marines killed Juan Manuel Loza, also known as "El Toro," the security official said. The government had identified him as the Gulf Cartel's leader in Reynosa.

In and around Reynosa — a major city across the border from McAllen, Texas — there have been numerous violent clashes between various factions of the Gulf cartel over the past several months.

But Reynosa, with a population of about 700,000, may be the single largest city in Mexico under the thumb of the cartels. Drug traffickers with the powerful Gulf cartel have long dominated Tamaulipas.

Between 2013 and 2016, homicides in the state rose 32%. Now, in Reynosa, fractions of the Gulf cartel have attacked residents and businesses and much of the city's periphery is wracked by violence.

Reynosa has been one of the most violent cities in Mexico over the past year, racked by turf wars among the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, two drug gangs fighting for control of border smuggling ...