The US Treasury Department has sanctioned leaders of the Mexican cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana, designating them as a "foreign terrorist organization". The State Department is offering rewards of up to $8 million for information leading to the arrest of the cartel's co-leaders, Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga.
This move aims to disrupt the cartel's finances and activities, which include trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine into the US, as well as laundering money through the US financial system and engaging in extortion, kidnapping, and murder.
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The US has been actively targeting Mexican cartels through various measures. For instance, the State Department has increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), to $15 million. Additionally, Mexico's financial intelligence unit has seized assets worth almost $60 million tied to the Sinaloa Cartel and frozen nearly 2,000 bank accounts linked to the CJNG.
US authorities have also arrested over 600 members of the CJNG, and the US has designated several drug cartels as "global terrorist organizations" to disrupt their finances and activities. These efforts aim to curb the cartels' violent activities and illicit drug trafficking into the US.
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