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US adds six Mexican cartels to list of foreign terrorist organizations

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The US has designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organisations, as part of a plan by the Trump administration to wage war on Mexico's organized crime groups. The designation remains unclear in its implications for US agencies' ability to pursue these groups, with some experts fearing it could be a first step towards US military strikes in Mexican territory. The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel are among the organisations targeted, marking an unprecedented chapter in the war on drugs.

  1. MX
    David Saucedo
    1. The Sinaloa Cartel is Mexico's largest criminal organization.
    2. The organization has endured and is in charge of a wide range of criminal activities on the border, which has given it visibility in the United States.
    3. I see a lot of bias in these designations. They left out many that are very violent, but that have not received much attention from the United States.
    4. They first joined forces to confront the invasion of Los Zetas and when they exterminated them, they did so again to repel the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Michoacán.
  2. MX
    María Calderón
    Wilson Center
    1. If cartels are terrorist organisations, that paves the way for other arguments in the political realm for taking US military action.
    2. It's part of a political discourse and leverage.
  3. US
    Will Freeman
    Council on Foreign Relations
    1. To go after these groups, you have to go after their finances, their weapons supplies, their corrupt partnerships with government authorities.
    2. You could accuse anyone – from a migrant who pays a smuggler to a Mexican business that is forced to pay a 'protection fee' – of offering material or financial support to a terrorist organisation.
  4. US
    Stephanie Brewer
    Washington Office on Latin America
    1. I think it's of concern that this is coming in the context of rhetoric out of the White House that conflates migration with crime, drugs and, now, terrorism.
    2. The US already takes a lot of actions against these groups. They surveil them, sanction them, and prosecute their members in court. So this decision will not change much in terms of the tools they have at their disposal.
    3. Trump has previously stated that the Mexican government has an 'intolerable alliance' with the cartels. Does this mean that the US now believes that the Mexican government is collaborating with terrorism?

Mexican Cartels

  1. El Chapo's family enters US as part of Ovidio Guzmán's plea deal negotiations
  2. Mexico rejects Trump's proposal to send US troops to Mexico border
  3. Mexican cartel's extermination center discovered with secret crematoriums and evidence of mass graves

sources

  1. 1.Al Jazeera
  2. 2.The Guardian
  3. 3.El Paìs
  4. 4.New York Times

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.US under Donald Trump
  3. 3.Immigration to the US
  4. 4.Human rights
  5. 5.Corruption
  6. 6.Organized crime
  7. 7.Mexico under Claudia Sheinbaum
  8. 8.Assassination
  9. 9.Mexican Cartels
  10. 10.Drug Trafficking
  11. 11.Mexico under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
  12. 12.Mexican Foreign Policy

countries

  1. 1.BrazilBR
  2. 2.CanadaCA
  3. 3.ChinaCN
  4. 4.ColombiaCO
  5. 5.MexicoMX
  6. 6.El SalvadorSV
  7. 7.United StatesUS
  8. 8.Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic ofVE

organizations

  1. 1.Mara Salvatrucha
  2. 2.Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel
  3. 3.Sinaloa Cartel
  4. 4.Tren de Aragua
  5. 5.White HouseUS
  6. 6.Cartel del Noreste
  7. 7.Carteles Unidos
  8. 8.Los Chapitos
  9. 9.Cartel del Golfo
  10. 10.Central Intelligence AgencyUS
  11. 11.Council on Foreign Relations
  12. 12.Familia Michoacana

persons

  1. 1.Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia
  2. 2.Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
  3. 3.Nemesio Oseguera
  4. 4.Donald TrumpUS
  5. 5.Héctor Melesio Cuén
  6. 6.Ivan Archivaldo Guzman
  7. 7.Jesus Alfredo Guzman
  8. 8.Marco RubioUS
  9. 9.Claudia SheinbaumMX
  10. 10.David SaucedoMX
  11. 11.Elon MuskUS
  12. 12.George W BushUS

technicals

  1. 1.La Bestia
  2. 2.Alien Enemies Act
US adds six Mexican cartels to list of foreign terrorist organizations