The Gulf Cartel has imposed taxes on homeowners in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, for their right to plant trees on their property. This government-protected criminal organization has a long history of being able to operate with complete impunity in the city.
This month, gunmen from the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel, known as the Cyclones, began visiting homeowners in the city, forcing them to pay 100 pesos, or about $5 a month, for each large tree that provides shade to their homes. I told him. . Those who do not pay their monthly taxes must cut down their trees or face the consequences.
Breitbart Texas has learned that the practice is already in place in the cities of Valle Hermoso and Rio Bravo in Tamaulipas, and Matamoros only started implementing it earlier this month. The Gulf Cartel has a long history of being able to extort innocent victims and businesses through the extensive collusion of local and state government officials.
As Breitbart Texas reported last year, the Gulf Cartel even used alleged city employees to extort monthly fees from local businesses. These people even provide extortion receipts. These “fees” were not paid to the city, but instead passed to the Gulf Cartel.
In a separate case, Breitbart Texas exclusively revealed that one of the city’s former civil protection officials was an enforcer for the Gulf Cartel. He recently went to prison for kidnapping as a representative of a criminal organization. He was also one of several city officials under investigation for allowing the Gulf Cartel to use city ambulances to smuggle groups of U.S. citizens kidnapped by the cartel. .
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas is recruiting citizen journalists willing to risk their lives to expose cartels that silence their communities in Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. visited the state. If pseudonyms were not used, the authors would surely face death at the hands of the various cartels operating in these regions, including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Breitbart Texas Cartel Chronicles Published in both English and original Spanish. This article was written by “JA Espinoza” from Tamaulipas.
