i ve been briefed by the fbi, which is working with mexican authorities. senior department officials are working closely with our counterparts at the state department. during this difficult time, i want to offer my deepest sympathies to the families of the americans who were attacked and kidnapped. also, president andres manuel lopez of mexico in his daily news conference did confirm these facts, which is just a horrible tragedy occurring there in matamoros, tamaulipas. also this morning, new steps in the national fight about abortion rights. california governor gavin newsom says the state will not be doing business with walgreens after the company said it will not sell abortion pills in 21 states. spokesperson for the governor told nbc news, california is reviewing all relationships between walgreens and the state. walgreens has not yet responded to nbc s request for comment. meanwhile, texas is facing a new
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with the cartel, what steps the mexican government took to recover these people, whether they were just left somewhere and found by mexican authorities. we re waiting to hear that. we believe we ll hear from u.s. officials today. attorney general merrick garland has a news conference at 11:30. there are other opportunities. we ll hear from american officials about this. they ll have to explain, eventually, what they did to help recover these americans. it s just an awful situation, and it does underscore, asluing lawlessness within parts of mexico that has major u.s. foreign policy implications. there are parts of mexico where americans regularly vacation, where cartel murders are now happening with some regularity. you know, a few years ago, there was a debate inside washington about whether mexico was a failed state because it could not control the level of violence in parts of its country. we may see that debate renewed. we ll see a debate about what the u.s. should be doing about i
tamaulipas areas, you have two basic cartels that are warring factions at this point in time. that is the gulf cartel that has been operating probably since about the 1940s. then you have remnants of the setas which, as you know, jose, was the most violent cartel in mexico. they re the ones that started the beheadings and, you know, the horrible, violent issues in mexico. that is the cartel, the northeast cartel. there is a struggle going on there in what they re fighting for, the drug routes going from maamoros into texas, into the united states. normally, they patrol tamaulipas, the tamaulipas area. if they see anybody that s