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USA imposed sanctions on Mexican drug traffickers on Wednesday Felix Nunez, alias “little monkey“, and brothers Alfonso and René Arcatewhom he accuses of being part of a powerful
USA imposed sanctions on Mexican drug traffickers on Wednesday Felix Nunez, alias “little monkey“, and brothers Alfonso and René Arcatewhom he accuses of being part of a powerful Sinaloa cartel and participate in traffic from fentanyl.
“Today’s action is directed at key individuals responsible for facilitating the trafficking of deadly drugs such as fentanyl into the United States, where it wreaks havoc on our communities,” the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury for Counterterrorism and Financial Intelligence said in a statement. Brian Nelson.
According to the government Joe Biden El Changuito is the “powerful and brutal leader” of the Sinaloa cartel in the city Manzanillo able Colima whose port serves as a gateway for drugs such as cocaine from Colombia, and chemical precursors Asia which are used to manufacture fentanyl, which then ends up in the United States.
El Changito, one of the founders Anthrax, armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested by Mexican authorities in 2014, but escaped from prison in 2017 in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, and remains on the run to this day.
The Arzate brothers, according to the US Department of the Treasury, are in charge of drug trafficking operations in the area. Tijuana, in the Mexican state Baja California where “they are involved in drug trafficking in large quantities, such as fentanyl.”
The United States accuses them of “extremely brutal acts” and of “kidnappings and executions for the Sinaloa cartel.” Both are being charged in federal court in California.
Sanctions blocking their assets in the United States and prohibiting doing business with them were introduced in consultation with Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) governments Mexico, Ministry of Finance reported.
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid, fifty times more potent than morphine, and the cause of the worst drug crisis in US history, where more than 70,000 people died from overdoses of the drug last year.
According to the US, the Mexican cartels of Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation they manufacture fentanyl in clandestine labs using chemicals and cosmetics they buy legally. China and then exported and distributed throughout the United States.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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