Tamaulipas

The former governor of Tamaulipas and mayor of Matamoros has been on the lam since 2012, when the Mexican Attorney General's Office opened an investigation into whether Yarrington had ties with drug traffickers connected to the Gulf Cartel and its then-enforcement wing, Los Zetas. Last April, Italian ...

Nearly a year after he was captured in Italy while traveling under an assumed name and false passports, former Tamaulipas governor Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba has been extradited to the United States, the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Texas announced Friday. Ruvalcaba, the governor of Tamaulipas from ...

CD. MIGUEL ALEMAN, Mex. – Families awaiting the results of the exhumations in Tamaulipas can do more than just wait. They say it's not a new process. The state continues collecting DNA samples. State officials say the more their database is full, the better the odds are of finding a match with one of the ...

The Mexican Navy (Semar) has accepted responsibility for the deaths of three civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, last month after the federal Attorney General's office (PGR) determined that the victims came under aerial fire from a Semar helicopter. The Navy had previously denied that it had fired the ...

Perfect for Mexico. Texas is home to most smaller- and medium-sized oil companies. They are the innovators and owners of this high-tech exploration industry. As such, this is a big opportunity for both Tamaulipas and Texas. Lucky Matamoros and its sister city Brownsville are located right in the middle of it.

Without a doubt, I would recommend visiting Tamaulipas to my friends,” said Robert Mason of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The “Winter Texans” also visited the city of Tampico where they enjoyed a tour of the historic center. The cathedral, the city's main squares and the old maritime Customs House were all ...

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- An alleged top boss of the Gulf drug cartel was captured by Mexican marines Monday in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, which for years has been terrorized by gangland violence. A statement from the Mexican navy said the suspect it identified only as Jose Alfredo, ...

Eugenio Hernandez Flores, who served as governor of the northern border state of Tamaulipas from 2005 to 2010, faces trial in a U.S. federal court in Texas, the ministry said in a statement. Several former PRI governors, including Hernandez's predecessor in Tamaulipas, have been arrested over ...

In Texas, he is accused of money laundering, bank fraud and the operation of an illegal wire transfer business. The ex-governor is suspected of receiving payments from the Zetas drug cartel while he was in office in exchange for allowing it to operate in Tamaulipas. He allegedly laundered the money both ...