Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
At one point, gunmen forced middle-school students off a school bus and used the vehicle as a blockade.
At about a dozen points in and around the city, gunmen carjacked vehicles and left them parked across roadways. The military deployed about 700 troops and two helicopters to quell the violence. State police chief Sergio Hernando Chávez told local media that"there was a confrontation between rival organized crime groups."On Monday, in the same area, police said they hadof the violent Metros faction of the Gulf cartel implicated in 23 attacks on police and nine against military personnel. The suspect was identified as Hugo Salinas Cortinas, whose nickname"La Cabra" means"The Goat.
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