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2025-02-26 Caribbean-Latin America
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Texas rancher, 74, is killed by IED planted by the cartel along the border
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[DM] A 74-year-old Texas rancher has been killed after driving over an IED planted by a cartel on his land in Mexico, 80 miles south of the US border.
Antonio Céspedes Saldierna died when his vehicle triggered the explosive device in Santa Rita, Tamaulipas, on Friday, police told ABC affiliate KRGV.
The rancher lived just over the border from Mexico in the town of Brownsville. The explosion also killed a man in the same truck and injured a woman.
Antonio's son, Ramiro Céspedes, a US Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he was injured by an IED during his deployment.
He told KRGV he felt, 'sad' and 'confused' that his father had suffered the same fate but with deadly consequences back home on his own ranch.
'I consider this a terrorist attack because if I went to war to fight terrorists, and I'm seeing the same thing here to me – my personal opinion – it is a terrorist attack,' Ramiro said.
Two people - Horacio Lopez Peña and his wife Ninfa Griselda Ortega - were in the truck with Antonio when the IED was triggered.
Horacio died, while Ninfa was taken to hospital with injuries, officials said. Her condition was not immediately available.
Tamaulipas officials had recently warned residents about explosive devices on rural roads in the area.
A state police representative told Channel 5 News that organized crime groups plant the IEDs to keep opposing factions away from their territories - but sometimes regular people get caught in the crossfire.
In January, one device destroyed a pick-up truck from Mexico's federal water agency near Rio Bravo, according to KRGV.
Ramiro told the outlet he wanted to see better regulations so that others don't suffer the same fate as his father.
'They're hard-working people, they want to continue their lives there in the ejido (communal farmland), but it's other individuals coming in, it's not them fighting each other,' Ramiro said. 
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