US EditionUS Expands Sanctions on CJNG, Targeting Fuel Theft and Fentanyl Operations
- President Donald Trump announced the creation of a national defense area along over 170 miles of the US-Mexico border to boost military support for border patrols.
- This move follows Trump's January emergency declaration along the 1,900-mile border, his designation of drug cartels as terrorist organizations, and prior US-Mexico collaboration on drone surveillance.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has opposed US military interventions against cartels and increased troop deployments along the border to combat drug trafficking. Since October, her administration has reported confiscating 144 tons of narcotics, which encompass approximately two million fentanyl pills.
- Security experts note Trump's rhetoric aims to pressure Mexico and warn US drone or air strikes, though potentially effective against high-value targets, would be politically explosive and risk undermining bilateral cooperation.
- Experts also caution that US strikes would recall the precedent of a 1916 US invasion after Pancho Villa's raid, highlighting risks of escalating actions that might not improve Mexico's security situation significantly.
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The theft of fuel from Mexican Petroleum (Pemex) and its trafficking to the United States became the second source of revenue for the main organized crime groups in Mexico, after drug trafficking, the U.S. Treasury Department revealed this Thursday.
Terrorist-Designated Jalisco Cartel, Now Active in Tennessee, Faces New Sanctions Under Trump Treasury Department - Tennessee Star
The U.S. Treasury Department and Secretary Scott Bessent placed new sanctions on individuals accused of involvement with Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or the Jalisco Cartel, a Mexico-based criminal organization that is active in Tennessee and across the country. A Thursday press release explained the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three Mexican nationals and two Mexican entities for their alleged involvement in what the Tr…
The U.S. Treasury Department is taking another blow against the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). U.S. authorities have sanctioned César Morfín, Álvaro Morfín, Remigio Morfin and the companies: Environmental Logistics Services and Jala Logística Group, for their alleged links in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network operated by the Mexican criminal organization. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that fuel theft and crude oil smuggl…
Treasury Sanctions Major Mexican Cartel Network Over Fentanyl and Fuel-Theft Cash Streams
The Treasury Department on May 1 announced U.S. sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based transport companies that investigators say allegedly fed Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion’s (CJNG’s) fentanyl pipeline and financed the cartel through large-scale fuel theft. The Office of Foreign Assets Control blocked all U.S. property and interests tied to Cesar Morfin Morfin, known as “Primito,” his brothers Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin and R…
The U.S. government reported on Thursday, May 1, that it sanctioned three Mexicans and two Mexican-based companies involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). Through a statement, the Treasury Department, headed by Scott Bessent, detailed that this network “generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year, benefiting the CJNG, through various criminal activities, such as trafficking…
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