Apr 8, 2015

Matamoros Becomes Ground Zero As Drug War Shifts On Mexican Border

NPR: Matamoros, which sits across the bridge from Brownsville, Texas, used to be a laid-back border town famed for margaritas and manufacturing.

But for at least the past five years, it's grown more and more violent: first, when the Zetas broke away from the Gulf Cartel, and more recently as a new feud has broken out between two factions within the Gulf. Read more.

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