Matamoros, Mexico News

Alberto Iracheta enjoys working. He is an all around handyman, a builder, a plumber, a gardener, a carpenter and an electrician.

The Zetas, Mexico's notoriously brutal group of paramilitary thugs, are expanding their role as bully businessmen along the Texas-Mexico border, branching out from traditional criminal enterprises such as extortion and drug trafficking and buying legitimate businesses, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials say.

In those two years the town was nearly deserted; it almost ceased to exist when most of the men left to follow the army or, really, to follow the excitement.

The former alleged leader of the Matamoros cell of the Gulf Cartel remains in federal custody in Mexico following his arraignment on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity and possession of restricted weapons.

ROCHESTER -- Maria Del Rosario Carranza, 45, of Rochester, died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, at Saint Marys Hospital.

Had a very solid meal at Tacos Matamoros in Sunset Park yesterday. My wife and I sampled the tacos, mole poblano, and sopes and all were very good- definitely worthy of a return visit.

Brown pots stand together shortly after the 2009 Student Bonfire was lit in a field off OSR in Robertson County on Tuesday.

Los Caminos del Rio elected Mexican historian Carlos Rugerio Cazares as its new president to replace Eddie Trevio Jr.

The United States consulate in Mexico is reaching out to the family of a Brownsville woman killed in Matamoros.

Mexican authorities continue to investigate the first shooting death in Matamoros of an American woman from an alleged misfire by Mexican army troops over the weekend.

A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

A Brownsville woman is dead, after she was shot by a stray bullet during a trip across the border.

Mexican newspapers are reporting the death of a Brownsville woman after a Mexican army soldier in Matamoros accidentally misfired his weapon Lizbeth Marn Garcia, 36, was pronounced dead early Saturday morning at the Alfredo Pumarejo General Hospital.

Safety systems supplier Autoliv Inc. will buy airbag, steering wheel and other passive safety component assets from Delphi Holdings L.L.P. , Autoliv said today.

An innovative project that would tie two international bridges at center point to both link Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico, is planned by the state , county and city.

He was born on May 26, 1927 in Matamoros, Mexico to Francisco Fuentes and Francisca Vento Fuentes.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is not ruling out involving outside organizations in the process of securing a permit from Mexico for the Brownsville-Matamoros dam project - commonly referred to as the weir - on the Rio Grande.

Main by Jorge Chabat 2009 special report by Chabat Though drug trafficking flourished in Mexico throughout much of the 20th century, the ever-increasing brutal violence associated with the production and trafficking of illicit drugs had by 2009 sparked the dispersal of 45,000 Mexican soldiers and 5,000 policemen across the country and attracted ...

Bob Gross will always have something by which to remember his former neighbors, whom he considered his second parents: a baby blue 1966 Ford Mustang with pony interior, still in mint condition.

A shootout Thursday between soldiers and armed men in front of a primary school in Colonia Benito Jurez left two civilians injured and resulted in total panic at the school in this border city, according to a report by Agencia ANTAM published on Mexican news Web site www.NoticiasDeTamaulipas.com . More than 100 students, teachers and parents were ...