US sanctions two members of a Mexican drug trafficking group known as the Northeast Cartel

WASHINGTON – The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday connected 2 members of the Mexican cause trafficking enactment Cartel del Noreste, the Northeast Cartel, which was formerly known arsenic Los Zetas.

The Treasury Department is targeting Miguel Angel de Anda Ledezma, who allegedly oversees the procurement of guns and ammunition for the cartel, and Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda, who was the second-in-command of the radical earlier his February 2025 apprehension by Mexican officials.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump's medication designated Cartel del Noreste arsenic a “foreign violent organization,” on with 7 different groups.

The Republican president has made securing the U.S.-Mexico borderline among his apical priorities. He has pledged to transportation retired wide deportations, nonstop active-duty troops to the border and reach deals with immoderate countries to instrumentality successful much migrants.

The Northeast Cartel is simply a remnant of the Zetas. Zetas were comprised of erstwhile Mexican subject officers and began arsenic an equipped militaristic helping of the Gulf Cartel that eventually split and became its ain trafficking organization.

The Northeast cartel has retained a comparatively tiny information of what the Zetas erstwhile ruled. Its basal is Nuevo Laredo, the busiest commercialized larboard connected the U.S.-Mexico border.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said successful a connection that the medication volition clasp the cartels "accountable for their transgression activities and abhorrent acts of violence.”

“We volition proceed to chopped disconnected the cartels’ quality to get the drugs, money, and guns that alteration their convulsive activities,” Bessent said.

In March a radical of Mexican nationals and erstwhile leaders of the Los Zetas were arraigned successful Washington connected charges that included engaging successful a continuing transgression endeavor that progressive respective execution conspiracies, conspiring to manufacture and administer ample quantities of cocaine and marijuana destined for the U.S.

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