“It’s gotten to the point here, the cities of Matamoros and Reynosa are in a state of anarchy.”
The body of a cartel hit-woman known as “La Flaca,” or “Skinny Girl,” was found dismembered and stuffed into a blue cooler in Matamoros, Mexico, last weekend. A tattoo reading “Niño” on Joselyn Alejandra Niño’s right forearm made it easy to identify the assassin’s sawed-off body parts in the ice chest.
The gruesome fate of La Flaca is just one example of the increased violence in two of Mexico’s northern border cities just minutes away from the United States. The violence is reaching a new “state of anarchy,” according to Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Tex.), who is urging Mexico and the U.S. to step up security and economic aide.
“Over the last two months it’s gotten worse and worse,” Vela told Fox News Latino. Texas’ 34th district encompasses the city of Brownsville and part of McAllen, which are connected by bridges over the Rio Grande to the crime-ridden cities of Matamoros and Reynosa respectively.
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