EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – At least 65 people have died in Mexican communities devastated by torrential rains in the past week. The latest victim was reported in Juarez early Tuesday as the current swept away a man trying to wade through a flooded street.

Mexican government officials are rushing aid to towns hit worst by the storms, particularly in the state of Veracruz. So are the drug cartels.

Videos posted Tuesday on social media show men in army green uniforms with rifles slung across the shoulder handing out bags with food to women approaching a pickup truck in Tihuatlan, Veracruz.

As he hands out the bags, one of the gunmen shouts, “De parte del Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion!” (On behalf of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel!)

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