{"id":1282,"date":"2015-04-18T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2015-04-18T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:52:06","slug":"clashes-kill-three-in-mexican-border-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/18\/clashes-kill-three-in-mexican-border-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes kill three in Mexican border town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunfire on the streets of the town of Reynosa in Mexico near the US border has left at least three people dead.<br \/>\nSecurity forces announced on Friday that \u201cthree armed civilians are reported dead,\u201d adding, \u201cTwo members of the Tamaulipas [state] security task force consisting of army troops and federal police were wounded in the attacks.\u201d<br \/>\nThe unrest began after a leader of one of the main drug gangs in the northern state of Tamaulipas was arrested by police, prompting members of the criminal group to attack federal forces and block roads and set vehicles on fire.<br \/>\nAuthorities issued warnings to residents, telling them not to use the main roads due to the violence. A handful of the 610,000 residents of the border town posted pictures on Twitter showing vehicles and people hiding and taking refuge from the gunfire.<br \/>\nTwo federal officials revealed on condition of anonymity that the cartel leader who was recently arrested is Jose Tiburcio Hernandez Fuentes, aka \u201cEl Gafe.\u201d<br \/>\nHe is the leader of the so-called Gulf Cartel, which holds sway in Tamaulipas.<br \/>\nInfighting between criminal groups and clashes between the groups and security forces is common in Tamaulipas.<br \/>\nSuch violence prompted the federal government to implement a new security plan last year that provides for the deployment of more federal forces to establish security in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunfire on the streets of the town of Reynosa in Mexico near the US border has left at least three people dead. Security forces announced on Friday that \u201cthree armed civilians are reported dead,\u201d adding, \u201cTwo members of the Tamaulipas [state] security task force consisting of army troops and federal police were wounded in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}