WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday designated Los Lorenzanas, a Guatemalan family trafficking network the State Department calls one of the country’s most powerful, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and the Treasury Department imposed terrorism sanctions on two other Guatemalan trafficking groups, Los Mendoza and Los Huistas, that it says work as logistics partners for Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the three groups “have deep ties with Mexican cartels, helping to move and export illicit drugs to fund terrorism and criminal activity.” “The Trump Administration will continue to use all available tools to protect our nation by keeping illicit drugs off our streets and disrupting the revenue streams funding violent narcoterrorists,” Rubio said in the State Department statement. “We will not stand by while these foreign terrorist organizations corrupt Guatemala’s institutions.”
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