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Friday, June 18, 2021

Three More US Citizens Go Missing Near Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

"Morogris" for Borderland Beat
The border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, is again on the international spotlight after a mother and her two children, all US citizens, went missing while driving through a rural highway.

Investigators say that the family was in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, visiting family. When they drove back to Laredo, Texas on Sunday, they disappeared on the highway leading to Nuevo Laredo. The woman was driving a yellow 2014 Chevrolet Sonic with Texas license plates. Authorities confirmed that the vehicle never made it across the US-Mexico border.

According to official figures, over 20 people have gone missing this year while driving from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey. Other figures from civil organizations say that the number could be up to 50, with 15 of them occurring this past May.

At least 6 US citizens have gone missing in or near Nuevo Laredo this year, making it one of the most dangerous places for US citizens on Mexican soil.

In this most recent case, the Nuevo León Attorney General's Office issued a search report for the disappearance of Gladys Cristina Pérez Sánchez, 39, and her children Juan Carlos González, 16, and Michelle Cristina Durán, 9, respectively.

Borderland Beat Analysis

This case brings Nuevo Laredo back to spotlight, especially given the fact that several US citizens have gone missing in the area this year.

In mid-March, three women from Laredo, Texas, disappeared after crossing to Nuevo Laredo for a doctor's appointment. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) believes they were kidnapped.

The following month, a man from Arkansas, disappeared near Nuevo Laredo after visiting his girlfriend in Monterrey. His whereabouts are also unknown.

In late May, two more US citizens from Houston, Texas, disappeared after they crossed the border into Nuevo Laredo. They were heading to San Luis Potosi to visit a sick relative. They never made it to their destination.

Full route the family intended to take from Sabinas Hidalgo (B) to Laredo (A). Authorities advise that drivers avoid driving in this part of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas at night.

Nuevo Laredo is under the control of the Northeast Cartel (Cartel del Noreste, CDN), a splintered group of the old Zetas cartel. It is rival to the Gulf Cartel (Cartel del Golfo, CDG), based east of Nuevo Laredo all the way to Matamoros.

In the past, the CDN has targeted American drivers in Nuevo Laredo by forcing them to pay money or "cartel tax" (cuota). Most of these incident happened near Luis Donaldo Colosio Avenue, which connects Nuevo Laredo with the federal highway leading to Monterrey.

A source consulted by Borderland Beat confirmed that the cartel has several outlooks posted across the highway that notify other cartel members of potential targets driving through. Borderland Beat published a story with videos showing how the CDN sets up blockades to extort drivers.

It is unknown is the US family of three made it to the Mexican Federal Highway 85D, a toll highway (autopista) that connects Sabinas Hidalgo to Nuevo Laredo. The kidnapping could have occurred on the non-toll (libre) road that connects with the federal highway.

56 comments:

  1. FBI is definitely getting involved in this, those doing this are going to severely be punished.

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  2. Americans should not go to Mexico and Mexicans should not go to America.

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    1. That's dumb. Both economies need each other. Isolationism is not the solution. Read a book, talk to people, get out of your house and try learn something.

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    2. America does not need anything from Mexico. We already have your recipes.

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    3. Mexico is part of America..... North America

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    4. 12:49 yea they need to keep exploiting alot of mexicos lands for its avocados, pale people love that shit now. And alot of other resources mexico has. You are such a shit head if you dont know that.

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    5. How about Anglos stay in their colonies?

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    6. 9:33 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no mames America es un continente!!! Estas hablando de Mexico y Estados Unidos de America (USA)?
      Dilo bien puñetas que todos somos americanos, unos del sur, centro y norte! Y que crees? Mexico esta esta en "AMERICA DEL NORTE" 🤯
      Y si aprendiste algo pues de nada, ahora eres un poco menos ignorante👍

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    7. 213 then Mexico should be controlled by the USA z government

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    8. México acts more like Central Americans

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    9. USA needs Mexico to supply drugs for crackheads. Mexico needs the mighty $$$ and guns. USA and Mexico are like married couple hard to get divorce.

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    10. Cockroaches would become an endangered species, if the United States' Constitution _were_ to become the governing entity of Mexico

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    11. Dumb fuck don’t realized we’ve already invaded the U.S. from the inside out. Gringos pendejos.

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  3. tamaulipas is a blackhole. lots of disappearances. i hope they can find them...

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  4. The FBI is powerless in Mexico especially after the general cienfuegos incident!! The Mexican powers that be got scared they couldn't come to the United States without getting arrested for some dirty deeds of their own?!

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    1. You think so powerless not really, you want to see the millions in aid yearly to fight the war on drugs go to zero. Obrador has a lot to lose, should he meddle with USA.

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    2. 12:25 asustame pantión, peeeeeero AMLO rejected the bread and buttered money for drug fights and ??

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    3. 3:17 lol he never rejects money coming in especially in the millions. Wake up Willis.

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    4. 1225

      AID is the problem. US arms both sides like usual. They just elected a crackhead in Biden.

      It's not about morality it's about power. They started a war and now Mexico supposedly "needs" the US.

      Why does Mexico need the approval of the US for arms? They can buy elsewhere or make their own.

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  5. You gotta think that the U.S has some figurative "line in the sand" which when crossed will trigger a U.S. response-Soveringty only goes so far. Ask Iraq.

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  6. Right now I think it's better to cross at Matamoros, that highway to Victoria and then to San Luis, is pretty much four lane and doesn't get that much play.

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    1. Maybe, but the Matamoros/Victoria highway is non-toll. Not very long ago it used to be called the "Highway of Death".

      The issue, I think, is that many people still continue to take the "libre" road to Monterrey/San Luis instead of toll or federal highways just so they can save money.

      I also think Texas plates are a problem. It's much safer to rent a car with Tamaulipas plates to move around through Nuevo Laredo and Nuevo Leon.

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  7. But according to some cheerleaders CJNG control Nuevo Laredo?

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    1. No one ever said that . M CJNG living in your head rent free

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    2. 1:31 just go back and look through the old comments on CJNG and Nuevo Laredo dumb dumb

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    3. 1:31 cheerleaders taking insults people say to them and now using then against an idiot commentator. You mencha fans are so unoriginal

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    4. 5:01 mas bien piensen ustedes bien lo que van a secir que las palabras se les van a regresar! Y aguente primo viejon🤣🤣🤣

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  8. This will happen all over Mexico if drugs are legalized and drug cartels are dismantled. They will shift their operations to other forms of income via kidnappings, extortion, human trafficking, etc. these things already happen but if you think it’s bad now, it will be much worse.

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    1. Why? Are Mexicans inherently given to criminal enterprises? So racist.

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    2. Even if drugs are legalized, we are talking marijuana and Hash maybe a few others,Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth will NEVER be legalized. Amsterdam permits weed and hashish while the big 3 drugs are still illegal yet the drug underworld is doing just fine there. Who knows what can be done?? All we can say definitively is that the war on drugs is the most colossal legal failure ever. It continues because doing nothing morally seems wrong. Smh

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  9. American please stand of Mexico very dangerous

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  10. wtf a 9 year old girl?
    savage vatos...

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    1. Yup those are the mugrosos of el huevo treviño

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  11. I crossed Nuevo Laredo Thursday around 2:30am. It was calm and Mexican national guard right outside by Lincoln international port 2.

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    1. You must be asking for trouble friend. Be lucky you were spared.

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    2. Cross 2 or 3 more times and your body will be in grave yard.

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  12. I love to eat cat meat. It is extremely nutritional and savory. It takes a lot of cats to make a good meal, but that is fine, because killing them is very fun and can be good exercise.

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  13. Yeah Mexico isn’t fucking soft. Don’t fucking come here thinking it’s safe bitch

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  14. Stay out of MX. Can't be clearer than this

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  15. Su propio govierno les advierte el risk de ir a mexico , pero les vale madre yo ke zoy mexican ni me arriesgo en ir y yo les pago todo amis gfes para ke vengan a vicitarme , ay ke penzar las cosas.

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  16. Remember this cool guys are the cds partners, let la M grande take care of this fools he will give them the deserved treatment!!! ARRIVA EL SEÑOR MENCHO!!!!!

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  17. 1:07pm

    toppz

    it continues because like you said the "big three can never be legalized"...what you might want to consider saying in the future goes a little something like this...

    "drugs can be bad but prohibition is worse 110% of the time. nothing is what we did during prohibition, and look what happened, political corruption, high crime, high costs of drugs and uncertain purity resulting in death and overall decrease in quality of life and social cohesion. doing something means not letting the prison law enforcement appartus take over our country, doing something means not treating someone who happens to enjoy using a substance other than coffee nicotine alcohol or a multitude of pre perscribed only perscriptions like a god dang pariah, doing something means learning to respect others and trust in individual liberty, doing something means the state cant convince you to buy their solution, as anything but them getting out of the way presents more problems and adds fuel to the fire. doing something is realizing everything is learned, drugs are inatimate objects they possess no personifcation. ie they cant be good or evil, they can be used responsibily or dangerously. we have already have laws for if someone decides to get wreckless while intoxicated. the ability to get intoxicated isnt made illegal the other harmful act is. hence users of the so called big three dont usually die if they are schooled in using correctly ie how not to die, illegality throws a huge variable into this possibility because people have to roll the dice on what they are buying. oh its being sold as heroin suprise its a deadly dose of fentanyl brought to you by prohibition inc enjoy...

    Doing something means DOING SOMETHING. bcuz right now all i see is a bunch of people deligating responsibility to the state to fix all social ills, this WILL contribute substantially to the down fall of this nation if a change of course not implemented asap like 10 years ago now. do something friend, you can and will feel good about that.



    cheers &
    amen

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  18. Cdn is fucking up Mayo must be dead if ain't influentially making stop being sloppy after taking em in Zac🤭🤫

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    1. EL MAYO DIED OF COVID19 LAST YEAR AROUND AUGUST, THATS THE REASON GRUPO FLECHAS IN ZACATECAS HAVE BEEN TERRORIZING AVERAGE CITIZENS AND RAPING UNDERAGE FEMALES WHO ARENT INVOLVED IN THE WAR AND NOW MAYOS ALLIES CDN KEEP KILLING FEMALES AND EXTORTING😀😀😀
      SON UÑA Y MUGRE

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    2. 9:40 i totally believe that!!!

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    3. That's why they're called the "MAYOZETAS" @9:40

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  19. I know that road well. Sometimes its so congested you literally are not moving for hours. Easy Pickings. I want to go back to Monterrey to rock climb, so i have been learning to 3d print a firearm, fuck that shit.. You would be crazy to go through Nuevo Laredo un- armed. May have to hide a shot gun shell or 2 up my bum.

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    1. Just cross in coahuila and you will be safe, no cartel action over here

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  20. It should be renamed MexiHell
    It is a beautiful place though the cartels destroyed it

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  21. En Nectar Lima todo lo que huela a Jalisco no vuelve, los pocos sobrevivientes dejan el mismo mensaje "en Laredo no entran las 4 letras"

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  22. MAYO ZAMBADA IS DEAD HE HAS NO INFLUENCE ON THE ORGANIZATION BEARING HIS NAME😀😀 EL PARIENTE R1 AND AZTECA IN FRESNILLO ARE KILLING INNOCENTS AND EXTORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND THEYRE NOW CHARGING A "WAR QUOTA" TO THE RESIDENTS OF FRESNILLO😀😀
    TO FINANCE THEYRE WAR AGAINST THE GOLIATH C.J.N.G


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    1. Sorry I don't read comments with all capitals.

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  23. Those children and mother I pray they are not being treated badly and they should not have to go through this these poor innocent babies ! It makes me so sick to my stomache because I can't imagine my children being in this situation let alone someone elses

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  24. My prayers go out to the Lady and her kids.
    And hope they come home safe

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