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| Three Cartel Gunmen Incinerated During Border City Shootouts in Mexico |
| 2021-08-31 |
| [BREITBART] Three cartel button men died in a fierce shootout with authorities when their vehicle caught fire and their bodies were incinerated. That shootout is one of several that took place during recent days in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.A fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... shootout took place this week when a group of Gulf Cartel button men clashed with Tamaulipas state coppers on the west side of Matamoros. Following a brief exchange of gunfire, the three button men riding in an SUV attempted to flee. The group sped away along the highway known as Sendero Nacional. Police officers chased the button men and exchanged gunfire during a rolling shootout. The clash ended when the button men crashed into the wall of a manufacturing plant and their vehicle quickly became engulfed in flames. By the time local firefighters responded and put out the flames, the three button men had been partially incinerated. Since that shootout, Tamaulipas state authorities engaged in several festivities and shootouts with Gulf Cartel button men in Matamoros. This led to several arrests and left button men and coppers maimed. Security conditions in Matamoros worsened in recent weeks as button men expanded their extortion operations. They also turned to armed robberies and carjackings — similar to the current trends in Reynosa. The escalation in violence in Matamoros is also linked to an apparent internal conflict within the leaders of that faction. As Breitbart Texas reported, over the summer, the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel had announced they were stopping a long-term pie fight with the faction in Reynosa in an attempt to restore peace to the region. Despite such claims, both border cities continue to suffer from |
| Posted by:Fred |