The United States Attorney General’s Office issued a memorandum calling for the “total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations,” calling on security agencies to have a greater strategy against groups such as the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the Aragua Train, among others.
This memorandum is published after the Executive Order signed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who called these organized crime groups terrorists. In addition, he blames them for the addiction to opiates, such as fentanyl, which has claimed the lives of 70 thousand people in the ‘neighboring country to the north.’
According to the memorandum, which was distributed this Thursday, Trump orders a change in the strategy to confront cartels and other criminal groups; in addition to requesting greater coordination between federal prosecutors, agencies in charge of National Security and other agencies.
The memorandum from the US Attorney’s Office also seeks to eliminate the cartels so that the nation can defend its “sovereignty.” In addition to dismantling each of these groups and their members, regardless of the immigration status of each of them.
Among the factors for issuing charges, ordering the arrest or extradition of people linked to drug trafficking, according to the memorandum, are the following: when the target is the leader of a criminal organization, when the target commits illegal actions directly against the United States, causes deaths or injuries in that country, among others.
Trump’s new strategy against the cartels focuses, above all, on those organizations that are already considered terrorists, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, the CJNG, in addition to transnational organizations such as the Aragua Train – which had its origins among Venezuelan migrants – and the Mara Salvatrucha gang.
During his inauguration as US president, Donald Trump signed an executive order designating cartels and transnational criminal groups as terrorist organizations. The US executive has asked Canada to adopt the same measure in order to avoid imposing 25 percent tariffs on their products.
Source: radioformula
