There are more disturbing border security developments – all tied to the cartels -to report from the Texas-Mexico border. Let’s start across the border from Brownsville, in Matamoros where pictures of a homemade “narco tank” (called a “monstruoso”) up in flames have surfaced on x.com (formerly twitter).
This is the aftermath of a continuing battle between rival groups of the Gulf Carte1 (CDG) – formerly known as the Matamoros Cartel (CDM) who are fighting for control of the cross-border drug and human-smuggling trade there.
These latest images follow a photo distributed on x.com of another destroyed Gulf Cartel “narco tank” after an earlier battle just across the border from Donna, Texas (in Rio Bravo, Mexico) on October 13, 2024.
Gulf Cartel Gunmen can be seen in the upper part of this aerial image outside a truck during a gunbattle in Rio Bravo, Mexico (Oct 23, 2024)Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety
A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) aircraft recorded infrared images of one of these ongoing Gulf Cartel gun battles just one mile south of the Texas border in Rio Bravo, Mexico while patrolling the Rio Grande on Wednesday, October 23, 2024.