USA He sanctioned two alleged “high rank” members of the Northeast Cartel (CDN), based in Mexico, which exerts an “important influence” in the border area between the two countries, the Department of the Treasury reported on Wednesday, May 21.
The US president, Donald Trumpit is in full crusade against the drug trafficking And the Northeast Cartel (CDC) is one of the eight criminal groups designated by Washington as organizations “global terrorists“
His government considers this cartel, formerly known as Los Zetas, as a “of the organizations of drug traffickers more violent of Mexico“
It is based mainly in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo León, all in the northeast of the country.
The US authorities accuse the cartel of being involved in extortion, kidnappings and murders, drug trafficking, human beings, arms trafficking, money laundering and theft of vehicles and oil.
In March 2022, the cartel attacked the consulate of USA In Nuevo Laredo (Northeast) with firearms and grenades after the arrest of a CDN member, explains the Treasury Department in a statement.
This cartel “exerts an important influence on the border region, especially near the entry point of Laredo/Nuevo Laredo,” he adds.
“CDN and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border” and “The Trump administration will make these terrorists yield accounts,” warns the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, cited in the note.
The foreign asset control office (OFAC), dependent on Treasury Departmentimposes penalties specifically to two “high -ranking members”: Miguel Ángel de Anda Ledezma and Ricardo González Sauceda to block all their assets in USA or those in power or under the control of Americans.
Washington It accuses De Anda to supervise “the acquisition of weapons and ammunition” for the Cartel and González to be “the second in command of the CDN” before being arrested by the Mexican security forces in February 2025.
González “directed an armed arm” from the cartel, adds the statement.
According to Mexican authorities when González was arrested, he was in possession of a rifle, a gun, 300 grams of methamphetamine and a package with 1,500 fentanyl pills, a synthetic opioid that is responsible for most overdose deaths in overdose in USA.