A highway that connects one of Mexico’s top metropolitan areas with the Texas border has once again become risky for robberies.
According to various news outlets, the victims of the robberies have largely been people from the Monterrey Metropolitan area who travel to McAllen, Texas, for tourism and shopping in recent weeks., the motorist was driving back to Monterrey after spending some days shopping in McAllen. When the motorist and his relatives got close to a shuttered customs station 20 miles south of the city, four male and a female gunman took their belongings, cash, and phones.
The highway between Reynosa and Monterrey is not the only one that has seen an increase in cartel roadblocks and robberies. Residents report similar cases along Highway 54, which connects Miguel Aleman with Monterrey. The route is favored by some travelers from Monterrey since they believe the route to be faster. In recent weeks, Miguel Aleman has seen a dramatic rise in violence as rival criminal organizations fight for control of smuggling corridors into Texas.
“It was there, by the marker for Kilometer 22, you see them from a distance, and you start praying,” a resident of Miguel Aleman told Breitbart Texas. “When we go through there, they sort of know who the locals are, but we did see another family that they had stopped, and they were checking their phones.”
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