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Tamaulipas news organizations are worthless in reporting criminal gang news so the government has to resort to Twitter to communicate with its citizens about ongoing gang violence.
UPDATED with video taken yesterday. Comments in the article which posted the video say as 1600 hrs. fighting is still going on.
The city government of Reynosa, Tamaulipas communicating through Twitter has advised its citizens to stay indoors because of a number of "narcobloques" in the city, according to the Mexican daily Milenio.
Blocks have been emplaced by criminal gangs at Calle 20th and Bulevar Morelos in the Puentes Gemelos district and on Bulevar Hidalgo. Blocks are a certain indicator of violence where they take place.
Street blocks are a tactic employed by criminal gangs as a counter to police and military authorities against movement and deployment. It is used extensively by Los Zetas.
Reynosa has been the scene of numerous encounters between the Mexican Army and Marines, and criminal gangs in the recent past the last of which was an armed confrontation between the Mexican Army and suspected drug criminals July 15th which killed two suspects.
In other news in Reynosa, the government in Reynosa advised citizens through Twitter to avoid the area around Bulevar Hidalgo because of an explosive device which detonated in front of the store Soriana Tianguis Hidalgo. No injuries were reported and only minor property damage was reported.