Mexico: On 27 February US Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that the US had secured custody that day of 29 defendants from Mexico who are “facing charges in districts around the country relating to racketeering, drug-trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, money laundering, and other crimes”, according to a US Department of Justice (DoJ) statement. These include Rafael Caro Quintero, the founder of the now-defunct Cártel de Guadalajara, long a US target due to his suspected involvement in the murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena in 1985. The other defendants include leaders and managers of drug cartels recently designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists such as Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Cártel del Noreste, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and Cártel del Golfo (CDG). According to a DoJ statement, the defendants are “collectively alleged to have been responsible for the importation into the United States of massive quantities of poison, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin, as well as associated acts of violence”.
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