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Soldiers open fire on a pickup truck carrying unarmed civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, killing five people, sparking protests and riots by local people.
2023-02-26

A journalist for the Expreso newspaper is killed and his daughter is critically wounded by gunmen in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The victim is the 12th journalist murdered in Mexico this year.
2022-06-29

Mexican Army troops kill 12 drug cartel gunmen in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In separate incidents, police kill five attackers in Torreón, Coahuila, and five police officers are shot dead in Guanajuato.
2020-07-3

Hurricane Otto makes landfall in Nicaragua, becoming the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America.
2016-11-24

The Mexican police find 9 mutilated bodies inside a SUV with Texas license plates in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
2013-04-2

Mexican drug war: A car bomb explodes outside the city hall in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, injuring 7 bystanders. This is the third car bomb in Nuevo Laredo this year, and much of the violence is blamed on the country's most powerful cartels: Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel.
2012-06-29

Mexican Drug War: Gunmen open fire on an "El Mañana" newspaper office in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, shortly after drug-related massacres in the city.
2012-05-11

Around 140 prisoners break out of jail in Nuevo Laredo, northern Mexico.
2010-12-18

2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Matthew forms in the western Caribbean Sea with predictions that it could hit Central America on Friday or Saturday.
2010-09-23

Mexico asks its Latin American neighbours to help identify the 72 people found murdered in Tamaulipas.
2010-08-26