Trump’s administration plans to determine more than half a dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as a foreign terrorist organization, five US officials said with knowledge of immediate action.
This step to be made by the Foreign Ministry follows executive order President Trump signed January 20 calling for the intervention against the main cartels. This destination is expected to be used for eight groups, two of the officials said, although the list could change before the public announcement. Officials who spoke of this article have done so on condition of anonymity to talk about an event that has not yet been published.
The executive order called on to indicate and stated that the cartels “represent the threat of national security beyond the threat represented by the traditional organized crime” and that the United States would “ensure overall elimination” of groups.
Mr. Trump gave Foreign Minister Marco Rubio for two weeks to make a designation after consultation with several other cabinet members. Criminal groups and their members could be described as foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists according to the Regulation. The designation means that the US government can store groups of broad economic sanctions on groups and people or entities related to them.
The executive command generally referred to the cartels in Mexico. Specifically, it was also called Tren de Aragua, a group with roots in Venezuela and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a gang founded by Salvador’s immigrants in the United States, which plays a minor role in a multinational drug store.
In addition to these two groups, the Foreign Ministry plans to mark Clan del Golfo based in Colombia and five others in Mexico. The Mexican organizations that will be intended are, according to US officials of the Cartel Sinaloa, the new generation of Jalisco, the northeast cartel, the Michoacan and United Cartels family.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed several congress committees about the upcoming designations that the White House would announce this week. The department did not respond to the request for comment.
Clan del Golfo, or in the Persian Gulf, has worked for more than two decades with Mexican cartels and gave them cocaine to smuggle into the United States. After the price of cocaine rushed in 2017, the Colombian cartel aggressively moved to migrants to create its financial losses.
The American official, with the knowledge of the List, said the Gulf clan was probably added to involve migrants. The group mainly controls the gap of Darién, a narrow soil bridge that connects South and North America.
Migrants from all over the world – from China to Sudan to Venezuela – often fly to the admissible South American country before they set out on Darién Gap on their travels north to the United States. Many of these migrants pay thousands of dollars to workers working for the Persian Gulf clan as a protection for browsing the ground bridge.
The list of designations was to be completed last week, but could be delayed because the Foreign Ministry, according to a person who is familiar with this matter, expanded it from the groups listed in the executive order. Whether or not to include groups of organized crimes involved in trading with migrants has been discussed in detail, which partially caused a delay.
Mexican cartels included in the list closely work with the Persian Gulf clan to smuggle migrants throughout Latin America to the United States.
This month, Mr. Rubio finished his first trip as a state secretary and visited five countries in Latin America. He talked to his counterparts about migration and security issues, even if he did not visit Mexico.
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“They are controlled by drug cartels,” he continued. “They are the strongest strength on Earth and stare into the United States.”
“They facilitate illegal migration, but they also bring fentanyl and deadly drugs to our country,” he added. “This is the threat of national security, and it must stop.”
In Monday’s call with his counterpart in Argentina, Mr. Rubio discussed “shared security priorities in the region, including the fight against multinational organizations,” the Foreign Ministry said.
Mexican officials were in the application with Trump’s administration to avert the designation of terror for cartels and groups of organized crime operating in their country, according to people who are familiar with interviews.
Of the eight designated groups, five are mexican. The new generations of Sinaloa and Jalisco are the largest cartels for new generations, and most of the fentanyl markets have developed for the United States and produced synthetic opioid in Mexico before it smuggles north. Mexican citizens use a growing amount of fentanyl, which leads to an increasing level of dependence in the ground.
The designation list includes a smaller cartel, northeast and two Mexican groups claiming that American officials are more similar to organized criminal organizations: Michoacan family and United Cartels. These groups tend to act as Mexican cartels to help them spread their territorial control.
A group of organized crime is considered a cartel only if it controls enough drug trade to allow it to determine the price of any narcotics in places like New York or London.
According to an US official, net profits from international operations of Mexican cartels could reach up to $ 20 billion per year, almost 2 percent of gross domestic product in Mexico.
