Beyond the drug lords of Sinaloa and Jalisco: Trump’s blacklist designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
The White House is outlining, pending a formal announcement, the first designations: La Familia Michoacana, Cárteles Unidos, Cartel del Noroeste and the Gulf Cartel are on the list, according to ‘The New York Times’
The first designations of Mexican cartels as terrorist groups are on the table. The Donald Trump administration is targeting the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), two of the most powerful criminal forces in the world, for a first round of sanctions, The New York Times reported. Pending an official announcement, other organizations with extensive influence in Mexico are also on the blacklist, such as La Familia Michoacana, the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste (CDN), a splinter group of Los Zetas, as well as Cárteles Unidos, an amalgam of cells that operate in the south of the country. The paradigm shift heralds an unprecedented chapter in more than six decades of the war on drugs.
