LatinNews Daily - 11 November 2024

Mexico: On 31 October the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) sanctioned five Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities linked to La Línea, a Mexico-based drug trafficking organisation (DTO) responsible for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs into the US. The five Mexican nationals are: high-ranking La Línea members Josefa Yadira Carrasco Leyva and Jorge Adrián Ortega Gallegos; a drug trafficker and money launderer for La Línea, Heber Nieto Fierro; and Jesús Salas Aguayo and Adrián Aguayo, both La Línea associates. The two companies designated (which are owned or controlled by Nieto) are: R.y H. El Remate, Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, and Soluciones Tecnológicas y Paquetería Tres, Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable. An Ofac press release highlights that La Línea began as an armed wing of the Juárez DTO, intended to help it defend its border territories in and around Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. It adds that today La Línea operates in Ciudad Juárez, where it has access to drug trafficking and human smuggling routes across the US-Mexico border. The same press release notes that since September 2023, La Línea and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) DTO have been working together, with CJNG serving as La Línea’s source-of-supply for cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.

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