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La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, February 15, 2025, p. 3
The United States Department of State will designate the Sinaloa Cartel on February 19, the Jalisco cartel New generationN, the Gulf Cartel, the Northeast Cartel faction of Los Zetas, United Cartels and The Michoacan family as foreign terrorist organizations, according to the director of the media Breitbart TexasBrandon Darby, who had access to several documents of the Federal Research Office (FBI) related to the next order.
The designation also included the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha and to the South American group Aragua trainto which President Donald Trump described as Threats to the security of the American people and the stability of the international order in the western hemisphere
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He New York Times He initially reported the news and said that the list also included the Colombian criminal organization Gulf clan. However, the director of Breitbart Texaswho had access to FBI documents on the order, clarified that the list referred to the Mexican Gulf Cartel.
Trump signed an executive order on January 20 in which he declared that the United States will designate drug trafficking cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a measure that could boost a militarized agenda for the southern border of the country and for the rest of Latin America.
This measure joined others that include the declaration of an emergency on the southern border of the United States, the promise to impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, as well as the cancellation of CBP One, an application that allowed migrants to request Asylum quotes before reaching the border.
With AP information
