The U.S. Department of State sent out a travel alert warning U.S. citizens to avoid the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, following a series of blockades and attacks on police surveillance cameras. As part of the blockades, cartel gunmen stole some tractor-trailers, parked them across highways, and set them on fire.
The cartel actions began on Sunday late at night, when Mexico’s military and police forces raided a house in the Vicente Guerrero neighborhood. The target of the raid was Alexander “R-9 or Metro-9” Benavidez Flores, a local leader of the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel.
Authorities captured Benavidez and seized a weapon that he…
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