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    killed in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, by gunmen of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the area. The two agents traveled to Matamoros with an...
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  • Matamoros is a Spanish surname and place name meaning ‘Moor killer’. It may refer to: 1999 Matamoros standoff, an armed engagement between gangsters and...
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  • Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    threatening two U.S. federal officers. The standoff the two agents had with the drug lord in 1999 in the city of Matamoros led to the U.S. indicting Cárdenas...
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    Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    1971 in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas; he is the son of a woman who worked as the principal of a middle school in Matamoros. At the age of 21, he...
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  • Rogelio González Pizaña (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    two U.S. federal agents in Matamoros in 1999. On 6 December 2015, González Pizaña was killed along with his family in Matamoros by suspected members of the...
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  • Antonio Cárdenas Guillén (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    the Mexican Navy in Matamoros on 5 November 2010. According to the Mexican government, ten people were killed that day in Matamoros, but local media outlets...
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    Gulf Cartel (redirect from Matamoros Cartel)
    cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish:...
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  • Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    marijuana across the border each month. He was captured on April 30, 2009 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas along with his wife and his bodyguard, Miguel Ángel Reyes...
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  • Adán Medrano Rodríguez (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    transfers from the U.S. to Mexico. In 1999, Medrano and his associates threatened two U.S. agents at gunpoint in Matamoros after the agents traveled there with...
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  • Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles (category People involved in the 1999 Matamoros standoff)
    in Matamoros, where he was killed. Vázquez Mireles was tasked with eliminating the remaining gangsters who reported to Gómez Herrera in Matamoros, and...
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