Mayor of Matamoros runs out of visa for drug trafficking investigation

Matamoros, Tamps., April 19, 2025.- In an unprecedented event for Tamaulipas, the Black mayor of Matamoros, Alberto Granados Fávila, was arrested and deprived of his U.S. visa by agents of the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) on the night of Thursday, April 17. The incident would have occurred when the edil tried to... Read more →

Sources close to the investigation revealed to local correspondents that U.S. intelligence agencies had been monitoring the mayor for months for alleged links with the Gulf Cartel.

Victoria, Tamaulipas.- The U.S. government withheld and removed the visa from the mayor of Matamoros, Alberto Granados Fávila, as a follow-up to an investigation into drug trafficking. Granados Fávila attempted to enter U.S. territory on the night of Thursday, April 17. After passing the second point of review, elements of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) service stopped him. Already in the morning, the municipal president was…