Washington – The Trump administration imposed on Thursday economic sanctions In three Mexican citizens and two entities based in Mexico involved in a drug trafficking network and fuel theft linked to the poster of the new generation of Jalisco of Mexico.
It is one of the most powerful posters in Mexico and the United States Drug Control Management He says he has about 19,000 members in his ranks. The poster quickly became an extremely violent force after separating from the Sinaloa cartel after the 2010 murder of the Capo Ignacio Capo “Nacho” Colonel Villarreal poster by the Army.
The new sanctions against Jalisco New Generation, including the main members Cesar Morfin Morfin and his brothers Álvaro Noe Morfin Morfin and Remigio Morfin Morfin, point to the group’s fuel theft network. The Treasury Department says that the network has resulted in dozens of millions of dollars in lost income for the Mexican government and also finances the flow of illicit fentanyl in the United States.
Sanctions freeze any assets that people or companies have in the United States and prohibit US citizens do business with them.
The US administration has made a priority to combat that flow, which has blamed tens of thousands of overdose deaths every year.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said in a statement that his department “will continue to use all the tools available to relentlessly attack drug cartels and foreign terrorist organizations so that the United States will be safe again.”
Paul Anthony Pérez, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said that sanctions actions “will ensure that the posters no longer have the ability to provide unlimited funds to promote their criminal companies and allow the United States government to” interrupt their daily activities on both sides of the border. ”
In February, the administration appointed Jalisco New Generation as a Foreign terrorist organization and especially designated global terrorist. Thursday’s action is eight o’clock that Trump’s department has taken against the posters. The Biden administration also imposed sanctions on the new generation group of Jalisco.
The poster is LED by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. Washington has offered a $ 15 million reward for information that leads to your capture.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, when asked Tuesday about the fight against theft and smuggling of fuel, said her party in Congress was working to strengthen government tools so that there is “traceability” when it comes to fuel shipments.
“So any tank truck that transports fuel, whatever we know: where did it come from; where is you going; if it is imported, with which import permit entered, where it was stored, and from there to which service station it will be taken,” said Sheinbaum. “If an oil tanker has stolen fuel from a pipe and stops on the road, it has to show where that fuel comes from; if not, there is something illegal.”
The White House has linked the fentanyl with President Donald Trump’s tariff plansaying that he wants to “hold Mexico, Canada and China responsible for stopping illegal immigration and preventing poisonous fentanil and other drugs from flowing to our country.”
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Sherman reported from Mexico City.
