The United States on Thursday announced a slew of sanctions targeting more than 50 Mexican individuals and entities allegedly linked to one of the country’s largest drug cartels, including a California-born man Washington says is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s new leader. According to a statement from the Treasury Department, dual U.S.-Mexican national Juan Carlos … Read more
U.S. Treasury announced a series of sanctions and a new bank alert targeting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful criminal enterprise. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on two Mexican men and nine companies involved in transportation, financial services and real estate, accused of being tied to a cartel-linked fuel theft … Read more
A top leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was captured Monday near the community of El Mirador in the state of Nayarit, Mexican officials said. Source link
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful criminal enterprise, suffered another blow Monday when the Mexican military captured one of its top leaders in the northwest of the country, two months after the cartel’s leader was killed. Audias Flores Silva, also known as “El Jardinero,” or The Gardener, was seen as a possible successor … Read more
Mexican security forces on Sunday killed the drug lord known as “El Mencho.” He ran one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, which traffics a large share of the narcotics available in the U.S., such as fentanyl. CBS News’ Lindsey Reiser has more. Source link
Mexico Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said Monday that 25 members of the National Guard were left dead in Jalisco in six separate attacks after the killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — known as “El Mencho” — was the boss of one of the fastest-growing criminal … Read more