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Friday, October 31, 2025

Security Industry Businessman Remains Missing in Reynosa, Tamaulipas

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Two weeks ago, businessman Marco Antonio Mariño Leal was reported missing in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. He was last seen around 3:00 PM, Thursday, the 9th of October while visiting a security business he owns in Reynosa. He remains missing, with no updates from government on the case.


Mariño Leal is the Vice President of La Federación de Cámaras de Comercio (Fecanaco), a business organization in Tamaulipas state. Mariño Leal owns companies related to corporate security and surveillance. Mariño Leal was appointed VP of Fecanaco after the prior VP, Julio Almanza Armas, was assassinated in July 2024. Julio César Almanza Armas was an outspoken advocate of the business sector in northern Mexico, denouncing insecurity.

The week of his disappearance, the state attorney General, Irving Barrios Mojica, stated that the case is not yet considered a kidnapping, but a missing persons case.


The case is notable for Mariño Leal's involvement in the security sector, which organized crime has an interest in. Over the last few years, criminal groups have aimed to adopt private sector and government surveillance measures for their own purposes. 

Context

Reynosa is one of the most violent cities in Mexico. The vast majority of crime is never reported. Business extortion rates and drug related killings are on the rise. Organized crime groups who relied on human smuggling and trafficking prior to the Trump admins increased border focus are now forced to focus on business extortion and retail drug sales. 

Reynosa has always been violent, as its geography makes it a crucial control point for border access. In recent years, residents feel that the security situation is further deteriorating. The percentage of the population who consider Reynosa to be unsafe increased from 74.1% to 81.1% between March and June 2025. 

Sources: Excelsior, Lopez Doriga, El Pais

21 comments:

  1. Last guy in this position was recently assassinated? Sure I'll take the job. What's the worse that can happen? You can't make this shit up.

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  2. Reynosa is a total disaster and for that matter Mexico as a whole has become a narco state. We should drop a couple of nuclear bombs in Mexico and start all over there. Look at Japan back in world War three. The people where out of control and after a couple of nukes they are now very peaceful people and our best friends. Nuff Said!!!

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    1. world War three...
      3:18 a.m.
      Oh, nuffy! 🥺😔

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    2. I'm sorry. It's World War Two. I had too many whiskeys last night with Buffy. I got dressed up as Nuffy for Halloween last night and signed autographs for the kids. Won't happen again. Nuff Said!!!

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    3. 3:18 if you only learned tu rid...
      Because of a tightened border, local crime got worse, extortion kidnapping for ransom mini drug trafficking murder and prostitution, where you can find a position like: the wheel barrow
      Drug trafficking by US military in and throughout the US continues, unabated...
      Stop regurgitating AI slop pinchi marrano.
      Japan's military did war with the US, not the japanese victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the japanese americans sent to detention camps.
      Constructive Americans led the reconstruction of Europe and japan with the likes of Plan Marshall (now invoked by MTG to restore the US to order and prosperity, with help of the releasing the Epstein Files)

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    4. A nuff le gusta que de chicharon por su apestoso.

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    5. Nuff said said enought! cuando un negrote se la dejo ir toda, desde entonces he can not get nuff of it

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  3. Lopez Doriga, Joaquin, "el patas de caballo"? Somebody reported he got toes amputated due to drug addiction, his career as a reporter really took a pounding because of his hanging with carlos loret de moolah, the junior narcoassociate fabricator of staged news with televisa, the favorite tv drug trafficking channel.

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  4. The Feds get all of their intel from Sol and Detroit.

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    1. By reposting articles. Hmm. There are people who post here that I know do something and know people. It is clear off info and structure of sentences. Vast majority are kids.

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    2. 8:19
      If you don't like the articles, translated to English and posted in here... I will be more than happy to refund your subscription.
      Have a nice day.

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  5. Sicario006July 31, 2019 at 8:10 PM

    Israelis Special Forces and Intelligence service are the best! Israel has been at war since it became a nation. Israel has the best counter terrorism operatives ,they also have the best eavesdropping equipment and firearms.
    One of my first firearms was an Israeli Uzi took down a lot of contras with it .
    Animo Mossad

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    1. 8:10 thanks to the US generosity much of it exacted through extortion and now being used to practice NeoNazism by Israel's corrupt right winger government desperate to protect bibi from the consequences of HIS CRIMES through more crimes against humanity, even the israelis are not happy with their own government BS.

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    2. @9:02 Mossad are just a bunch of lesbian seagulls. You and IOF can suck each others farts. Now look at your face.

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  6. El Charro the main plaza boss for CJNG en Aguascaliente captured. Big fish .

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  7. I regret to inform you, due to unfortunate events, transforming in Mexico every day, lawlessness, curuption, he is grassed.

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  8. Unless you’re in the Hong Kong club Tijuana Mexico, you’re as good as dead if you’re missing In Mexico!!🙀😹😂🇲🇽💀

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  9. The uzi is junk compared to HK products!! Not good for nothing but phone booth fights!!!😹🙀

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  10. Good article on VALORTAMAULIPECO about Grupo Serio of Jardineros/CJNG people going into Guererro

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