Mayors from the border cities of Miguel Aleman and Camargo are asking the new Tamaulipas governor for help in dealing with raging cartel violence.
Officials claim that the bloodshed is preventing foreign investments.
According to Mayor María Del Carmen Rocha Hernández from Camargo, just south of Rio Grande City, Texas, since 2019, the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have been waging a fierce turf war in her region. Due to lacking of public safety, cartel members took over the rural communities of Estacion, Santa Rosalia, and Los Ochoa, which forced more than 100 families to leave their homes.
Ramiro Cortez Barrera, mayor of Miguel Aleman, also voiced his concern over the violence in his city which is just south of Roma, Texas. According to Cortez Barrera, the two warring cartels are to blame for the violence that has affected surrounding area. Recently, gunmen dumped four severed human heads as a public threat to their rivals. In a separate incident, gunmen also left a dismembered body.