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    Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous...
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    entity and then the desired municipality. Tamaulipas. Matamoros" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2024. "Matamoros: Enciclopedia de Los Municipios y Delegaciones...
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  • On 3 March 2023, four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. A U.S. official said they were likely mistaken for Haitian drug smugglers...
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    Gulf Cartel (redirect from Matamoros Cartel)
    organized crime groups in the country. It is currently based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas. Their...
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    Matamoros–Brownsville, also known as Brownsville–Matamoros, or simply as the Borderplex, is one of the six transborder agglomerations along the Mexico–United...
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    Tamaulipas (Spanish pronunciation: [tamawˈlipas] ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas)...
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  • Matamoros International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Matamoros); officially Aeropuerto Internacional General Servando Canales (General...
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  • gangsters and law enforcement in Matamoros, Tamaulipas 2011 Matamoros mass kidnapping 2023 Matamoros kidnappings "Matamoros", a song by The Afghan Whigs from...
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  • leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, that was dubbed the Narcosatanists (Spanish: Los Narcosatánicos)...
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  • Juan Nepomuceno Guerra (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    2015, the Governor of Tamaulipas Egidio Torre Cantú inaugurated a street under his name, "Juan N. Guerra", in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The street was inaugurated...
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    Bagdad. Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico: Cronista 7 Cartografo de la H., 2004. Media related to Bagdad, Tamaulipas at Wikimedia Commons Matamoros:. The Gateway...
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  • Joselyn Alejandra Niño (category People from Tamaulipas)
    accomplices from Los Ciclones. On 13 April 2015, Mexican authorities in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, discovered Niño's dismembered body inside an ice cooler. The cooler...
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  • members of the Cázares family from three different households in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The women and children were released three days later,...
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    University of Tamaulipas (in Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, UAT) is a Mexican public university based in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. Throughout...
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    Antonio was killed by the Mexican marines on 5 November 2010 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, his faction – the Rojos – perceived that the Metros had tipped...
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  • killed by the Mexican Army Special Forces in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Guzmán Decena was born in a poor village in Puebla, Mexico on 13...
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  • Murder of Mark Kilroy (category Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    University of Texas at Austin student Mark James Kilroy was kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, while vacationing during spring break. He was taken by...
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  • Antonio Cárdenas Guillén (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    killed in Matamoros. Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén was born on 5 March 1962 in El Mezquital ranch in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico...
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  • Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he entered the cartel by killing Juan García Abrego's friend and...
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    Sara Aldrete (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. She received a sentence...
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    February 7, 2008. Retrieved November 4, 2012. "About Us". Brownsville & Matamoros Express Bridge. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved...
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  • Fed. 101) connects Matamoros, Tamaulipas, to Fed. 80 in San Luis Potosí. It passes through Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, and Tula. The route...
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    Juan García Abrego (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    former leader of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He started in the cartel under the tutelage of his uncle Juan...
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  • Bridge, a bridge between Brownsville, Texas, United States and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico Thames Gateway Bridge, a proposed new crossing of the River...
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  • The Gavilanes de Matamoros Fútbol Club, commonly known as Gavilanes, is a Mexican football club based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The club was founded on...
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    Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    Cartel in the late 1990s after he had served as a policeman in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Under the tutelage of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, Costilla Sánchez...
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  • Rigo Tovar (category People from Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    were thrown onto one of Matamoros' beaches per his wishes. In honor of his legacy, Tovar's hometown of Matamoros, Tamaulipas renamed a main avenue located...
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    killed in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, by gunmen of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the area. The two agents traveled to Matamoros with an...
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    Tamaulipas, on 9 May 2011, the Federal Police and the Mexican Army disarmed all police forces in Tamaulipas, beginning with the cities of Matamoros and...
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  • Charro Days (category Matamoros, Tamaulipas)
    celebration held in Brownsville, Texas, United States in cooperation with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The grito—a joyous Mexican shout—opens the festivities...
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