EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Citizen, One Other Killed By Terrorist Cartel Landmine in Mexico near Texas Border
Cartel Chronicles2 Feb 2025651
A Texas man and a friend he was traveling with in Mexico died when their vehicle exploded after driving over a cartel landmine. The fatal explosion comes after Breitbart Texas reported on prior explosions where innocents sustained injuries. The report forced Mexico’s government to confirm the issue and send out a series of notices warning locals about the use of cartel landmines on dirt roads in Tamaulipas.
The fatal explosion took place on Friday, when 70-year-old Brownsville, Texas, resident Jesus Antonio Cespedes Saldierna traveled in a Ford pickup with Texas license plates. The Texan traveled with his two friends, 60-year-old Horacio Lopez Pena and 50-year-old Ninfa Griselda Ortega Lucio, who are believed to be Mexican nationals. The vehicle was moving along a dirt road that connects the rural communities of Guadalupe Victoria and Santa Rita in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, when it drove over an explosive device. The device had been planted by cartel gunmen as part of an ongoing turf war with rival forces.
The blast killed Cespedes and Lopez while causing serious injuries to Ortega. Emergency personnel rushed the woman to a local hospital as authorities documented the scene of the explosion.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/02/02/exclusive-texas-man-and-one-other-killed-by-cartel-landmine-near-texas-border/
