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March 18, 2025March 18, 2025By Mario Vásquez
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The Foreign Assets Control Office (OFAC), under this department, accuses Jumilca Sandivel Hernández Pérez to be part of the López Organization and having “coordinated with the line, A drug trafficking organizationto introduce undocumented migrants in the United States, ”he said in a statement.

The line “is responsible for the murders in November 2019 of nine American citizens, including six children, in the Mexican state of Sonora” (North), he said.

In addition, together with other members of López, the sanctioned He used “American banks to receive and issue payments as part of its traffic operations of people, ”he added.

As a result of the sanctions, all the goods and participations in Hernández Pérez’s goods that are in the United States or that are held or under the control of Americans are blocked.

According to US authorities, López generated between US $ 104 and US $ 416 million in illicit profits between September 2020 and 2023, charging each migrant between US $ 13,000 and US $ 16,000 ..

The president’s government Donald Trump will pursue “criminal actors such as Hernández Pérez and the organization of traffic of people López, who perpetuate the illegal migration crisis and threaten the safety of Americans, ”said Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, cited in the note.

Special agents began an operation against López in 2023 and in July 2024 several of its members were sanctioned.

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On the other hand, the OFAC issued an alert “to raise awareness about the risks of sanctions and criminal responsibility for foreign financial institutions and other entities” exposed “to international cartels recently designated as global terrorist organizations”, including six Mexican groups in addition to the Venezuelan band El Train de Aragua and the MS-13 gang.

According to the Department of Treasury, López is a transnational criminal organization based in Guatemala responsible for the traffic of thousands of undocumented migrants from Guatemala, through Mexico, to the United States.

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