{"id":1395096,"date":"2022-03-22T21:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395096"},"modified":"2022-03-22T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T01:29:48","slug":"tensions-high-in-mexican-border-city-near-texas-amid-gulf-cartel-power-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tensions-high-in-mexican-border-city-near-texas-amid-gulf-cartel-power-vacuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions High in Mexican Border City near Texas amid Gulf Cartel Power Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftensions-high-in-mexican-border-city-near-texas-amid-gulf-cartel-power-vacuum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Tension remains high in a Mexican border city in the weeks after the capture of the area\u2019s top cartel boss because an heir remains to be named.<\/p>\n<p>While Matamoros has not seen any major gun battles since the arrest of Jose Alfredo \u201cEl Contador\u201d last month, instability remains as the boss\u2019 family appears split on naming a successor for the Gulf Cartel faction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10205289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/03\/El-Contador-Gulf-Cartel.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Alfredo \u201cEl Contador\u201d Cardenas Martinez (file photo)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2022\/02\/27\/elusive-gulf-cartel-boss-arrested-in-mexico-near-texas-border\/\">Mexican federal authorities arrested El Contador\u201d<\/a> on a series of warrants for organized crime and kidnapping charges. His arrest left a power vacuum, however, violence has yet to dramatically follow.<\/p>\n<p>The border city near Texas has seen a few smaller shootouts between gunmen, particularly on the southern and eastern sides, however, those clashes are ignored by local news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>One of the possible successors to El Contador is his right-hand man Juan Manuel \u201cErick\u201d Juarez Lawton. Juarez Lawton has begun approaching other commanders by threatening them into submission. Unconfirmed intelligence suggests he leaked El Contador\u2019s location as a way to take control of the organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gulf-Cartel-La-Kena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18490026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gulf-Cartel-La-Kena.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main rival to Juarez Lawton is Jose Alberto \u201cLa Kena or Ciclon 19\u201d Garcia Vilano, the former plaza boss for Matamoros. La Kena lost his position as regional leader following a fierce shootout with authorities. That shootout lasted for hours and left casualties including two innocent bystanders. One of those casualties was Ariel \u201cEl Tigre\u201d Trevino,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/11\/17\/exclusive-gulf-cartel-plaza-boss-demoted-after-mexican-border-city-shootout\/\"> a top enforcer for the Gulf Cartel who led a strike team to rescue La Kena<\/a>. However, when authorities began to hunt for El Tigre, La Kena left him to his fate, a move that got him demoted and forced to leave Matamoros.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Le\u00f3n to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.\u00a0 The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/02\/15\/breitbart-texas-announces-cartel-chronicles-effort-begins-to-help-citizen-journalists-in-mexico\/\"><em>Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0are published in both English and in their original\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/02\/15\/cronicas-de-carteles-breitbart-texas-un-esfuerzo-por-ayudar-a-los-periodistas-de-ciudadanos-en-mexico\/\"><em>Spanish<\/em><\/a><em>. This article was written by \u201cJ.A. Espinoza\u201d\u00a0 and \u201cJ.C. Sanchez\u201d from Tamaulipas.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension remains high in a Mexican border city in the weeks after the capture of the area\u2019s top cartel boss because an heir remains to be named. 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