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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Cartel del Golfo Escorpiones Torch PepsiCo Delivery Vehicle Fleet in Matamoros, Tamaulipas

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat


On Tuesday morning a serious fire broke out within the parking lot of the PepsiCo/Sabritas facility in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, eventually destroying 57 delivery trucks. The exact cause of the fire has not been publicly confirmed by authorities, but it is most likely related to extortion demands from the Escorpiones faction of the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros. 

The fire broke out at the PepsiCo distribution facility in southern Matamoros around 2:00 a.m. on 27 July. Firefighters and security forces responded to the scene and were able to keep the flames from damaging the Pepsi building, but local emergency officials reported 57 delivery vehicles were damaged. 
 

One month prior, on 25 June, local news reported the kidnapping of a delivery driver working for Pepsico. The driver was forced into a vehicle by gunmen, who took him to a residence in the Palmares neighborhood, where he was beaten and threatened. The gunmen called his supervisor demanding a ransom. Local authorities were able to locate his abandoned vehicle, but it is unknown whether the driver was recovered.


This pressure appears to have been building for a while. Last year, another Sabritas delivery vehicle was found burned on the Reynosa-Matamoros highway. 


Extortion of businesses is a major issue in the Tamaulipas border region, with Matamoros experiencing the highest rates of border cities in the state. This event is significant as it is rare for a criminal group in Mexico to react in such a manner towards a larger, multinational corporation. Most criminal pressure is exerted against local contractors, most often cargo transport drivers. 

64 comments:

  1. Looks like I'll have to switch to Dr Pepper.

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    1. 1:04 Dr Pepper does not traffick Sabritas, Pepsi Mexicana owns and distributes that junk food all over the US.

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    2. Go back to school fool. traffic.

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    3. I rarely see Dr Pepper in Mexico but Oxxo may sell it??
      I will look and report back and if they don’t I’ll let DP know they aren’t paying enough extortion yet 😂

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  2. 🕎🕎 viva la shienbaum, weeeeyyy 🤡

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  3. Que baile la churumbela

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  4. Connor donde estas menso

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    1. Why you ask for connor on every post. That's some gay ass shit

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    2. its the same braindead pendejo that would ask if Mencho was in Redwood City every damn post. 1) who gives a fuck 2) no, Connor is not here nor was Mencho there.

      Just gotta deal with the retards on this site, all part of the game i guess.

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    3. 4:19 AM estas celosa?

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  5. Will the price of my sodas go up now? Thanks a lot trump !

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    1. Trump didn't burn your soda trucks. It was the Escorpiones.

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    2. 2:38 fuck trump anyway.

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    3. Los Indios with their own Texas Brown Tea Party

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  6. Pepsi is terrible, just undrinkable. Coca-Cola classic or Dr. Pepper or GTFO.

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    1. 2:04 mister connoissewer, let people drink whatever the fuck they want to drink, stuff the propaganda where the sun don't shine, after all there are stock holders that own both brands and their derivatives.

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    2. Mexican Military Academies in the news, Cd Mante Tams.
      Academia Marina Doenitz, named after Nazi Karl Doenitz under investigation for the murder of weekend intern, 13 year old Daphne... accused murderera young Cadet interned full time got accused, she presented signs of torture and was kept prisoner for a while before being arrested, the "commander" of the academy has been arrested after the cover-up blew a hole on his ass... please everybody, don't let your children down by allowing them to go with adults you don't know, boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and other organizations only work with children to abuse them, even US Navy (whites too) has been accused for elementos and officers raping othe members, including women.
      The academia commander has never been military, but found his vocation was the academy to rape young girls for about 30 years, people say rape and abuse happens in every "military academy" all over Mexico and other institurions, just like US youth and adult prisons.

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  7. Since the Mexican authorities know who is responsible, we'll soon see a rapid and robust law enforcement response that will stop the scorpions and other wild bugs in their tracks and squash them flat once and for all. Correcto?

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  8. MUG ROoT BEeR for the win 🍺

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    1. 3:03 Any root beer with Chili Beans will do, but pendejos in the gabacho have ruined Hot Dogs with their soggy full of air buns, any crunchy foods make their "teeth hurt" unless it is a big thick long green cucumber.

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    2. Never found the appeal to root beer. It tastes like how my tios armpits smell

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  9. These type of things happen on both sides of the border says the sissies!!

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  10. It's over for the little guy.

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    1. The CDG Matamoros members are all fat

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  11. This attack was orchestrated by Coca-Cola and they're wrongfully blaming others to heat up the plaza.

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  12. Coco cola has power and influence Pepsi was gaining ground on them

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    1. Coca~Cola does not traffick snacks, drugs could be sent across the border with the sabritas but nobody wants them inspected, more like they didn't pay the plasa owners their $$$

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    2. No one cares honestly we’ve all known the chapos are done they have been for a while now the CDS civil war is just a lost cause taking up time, and innocent lives we know MF and Isidro are the main guys now and that’s cool hopefully they keep it peaceful. Can the government just arrest Ivan already or something it’s so pointless to keep fighting for them or with niggers. CJNG will be around for some time from the looks of it. A cartel family has fallen it’s not the firs or last a family like the chapos falls apart it’s time to just move on niggers already idk who in the government supports them still but there’s just no reason too

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  13. Look at the comments on here ?
    These rat bastards are killing 1000s jobs and leeching off businesses for a handful of people and these clowns on here are cheering it ? Fuckin losers

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    1. You're da loser, forgetting periods at end of sentence.

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    2. 5:00 you stupid bastard beast, where is the bragging?
      You are the kind of terrorista who will bomb the wrong target every time. Fackiu. Stick a hot burnt hot dog up your ass.

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  14. Donald J Trump needs to free his friends Andrew and Tristen Tate NOW!!!!!

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    1. 5:12 NAT HAPPENIN'! those faggots have been badmouthing barron and melania for a while, now they are going to want to be sent back to Rumania instead of the UK, but for now they are getting it up the ass in a US prison, american prisoners have principles, they feel like raping pedos and rapists is job number one, no lube!

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  15. Los mexican se la dan de duros y al final terminan como sapos en estados unidos

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    1. Y a ti te gusta que te pongan como sapo y te den duro en todos lados ..

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  16. Y la vieja lagartija sheinbaum que ase

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    1. 5:31 president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo keeps showing the world how to be President without making too many waves or murdering inno-cent people all over the world.
      Also has many new wave authoritarian latin-american wannabes on their knees, begging for considerations and pardons lost for being big loose twat mouths.like hernandez, noboa, bukele, and milei "the arghentinian motosierra" puppet of mossad, the tech bros and trompff.

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    2. 637pm. Hahaha pinche calaca peyejuda lider chaira .. shitbaum todavia esperando explication sobre lo del mayo .. y la babosa alli en el final del mundial junto a trump contenta hahahha vieja imbecil a pesar de toda la matanza de mexicanos por ICE que babosa y sus seguidores chairos

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  17. Animo delinquenza ! Pura grupo Escorpion gente del Chimichanga . Pura escuela del M3 ! Y el Señoron Tony Tormenta!

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    1. That's Koo foo

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    2. 643 callese alv joto barato

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    3. Connor my babe. @ 7:14

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    4. Hey compadre, you sound like a real upstanding caballero. I was thinking we could share some Buchanans and talk about Ford F250's and good fishing holes down there in TMPS. Give me a call, I work in Austin, TX but head down most weekends. You might have seen my King Ranch truck it's candy forest green and tan. Puro grupo FORD gente de Henry. Pura escuela plasticas no mames. Tony Tormenta uses bait :P

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    5. The company should have records of the people trying to shake them down, or what, is this just being done for the hell of it? Blaming escorpiones looks like too easy, like burning the Patagonia, california, canada, floridah, all the forest fires suddenly look suspicious, like sumbuddy trying to burn the Epstein Files by the metric ton.

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  18. Those dumb mfs just got themselves eliminated from the game. Mexico government will let all kinds of shit slide except fckn with commercial entities 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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    1. Escorpiones are better connected than most mexican crime groups. Their boss walks out free while others end up dead or sent to usa.

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    2. Pretty sure that even the crooked tamps gob will tighten the leash when foreign companies are complaining, especially with the current gobs on both sides of the border.

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  19. Royal
    Crown
    Cola

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  20. No wonder the prices of my Sabritas and Pepsi is through the roof. I can’t afford them anymore. Time to switch to coke and Doritos! Nuff Said!!!

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    1. 8:34 you could chew your imaginary gold coins and a side of trump steaks and wash it all with trump Koolaid, try it on a rat first, just in case it is poison.

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  21. Yoooooooooo trippy cagada eseeee so conor is the nufster and rubio is char while sol is mica tripppyyy shit ese shiauuuuuhhhh

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  22. I'ts whats for breakfast.

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  23. CDG Escorpiones members are all fat as fuck

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  24. Time for some ORANGE CRUSH! @#@

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  25. Conor who.is he anyone have a recent picture of him im intrigued..is his package really all datttttttttty Nuff Said!!!!!

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  26. El primo morfin y su clan controlan parte de tamaulipas para el CJNG a pesar de que se lo cargo la brga al senor gallos las 4 letras estas con POWER en diferentes estadossss alvvvvvvvvv

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  27. DA 03 tricky three cJNG just took major blow in Jalisco today at teh hands of the marines

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  28. That’s a shame. Pepsi tastes better..

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  29. I assume they’re out of business

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