🇲🇽Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels are Mexican customs’ main threats (report)

The illegal operations of the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels are the main threats to land customs security, reveal two confidential reports of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which are part of the documents hacked by the Guacamaya group.

The civilian-military X-ray of the customs situation warns of other vulnerabilities, such as corruption, smuggling, arms and illicit substances, and even the activities of alleged "huachicoleros". It also addresses the flow of operations in transnational parcel companies, which sometimes serve to traffic illegal goods.

The military analysis warns that the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation has its main centers of operation in Jalisco and Nayarit, where federal security authorities have identified clandestine laboratories in the territorial circumscription of the Guadalajara customs office, inferring a risk to the facilities in terms of the distribution of synthetic drugs by this criminal organization. It also highlights that Jalisco is one of the states with the highest rate of railroad robbery.

It states that the city known as the Perla Tapatía is part of the distribution route of illicit merchandise destined for northern cities (domestic couriers). "It has courier and parcel delivery facilities with a considerable volume of operations, such as DHL, the most used, FedEx, UPS, among others, which have been an important part in the transfer of fentanyl and its precursors".

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🇲🇽Archaeologists finds 8 sacrificial victims at Gulf coast pyramid

Archaeologists in Mexico have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were apparently decapitated as part of a ceremony to consecrate a temple.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said the skeletal remains may be as much as 2,000 years old. Ceremonial offerings of hundreds of beads, arrowheads and rings made of shells were with the remains.

They were found at a Mayan ruin site known as Moral-Reforma in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

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🇲🇽 Mexican officials find 175 migrants in truck near southern border

Mexican authorities found 175 migrants crowded into a truck trailer in the southern state of Chiapas. The migrants were mostly from Guatemala.

The National Migration Institute said that immigration agents heard yells and banging coming from inside the vehicle when it was stopped at a checkpoint in Chiapas.

Despite the driver's refusal to open the truck's back door, migrants' faces could be seen via vents in the compartment.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at U.S.-Mexico border to 'consider another city'

New York City will distribute flyers at the U.S.-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to "consider another city" and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days.

New York City says that it has provided services to 90,000 migrants since last spring and that nearly 55,000 remain in its care.

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🇲🇽 Mexico pledges to set up checkpoints to ‘dissuade’ migrants from hopping freight trains to US border

Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border.

The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security and immigration officials had with a representative of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute did not say where the checkpoints would be established or how migrants would be dissuaded or detained. In 2014, Mexican authorities briefly took to stopping trains to pull migrants off, but it was unclear if the government was planning to resume the raids.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo

The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel, as well as the current leader of Colombia’s powerful Clan del Golfo criminal enterprise.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated all 10 for their roles in drug trafficking, meaning any of their assets in the United States will be blocked and U.S. citizens are generally prohibited from dealing with any of their assets.

The nine affiliates of the Sinaloa cartel follow a U.S. indictment unsealed in April that targeted a branch of the Sinaloa cartel run by the sons of former leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Monday’s sanctions include several other people named in that indictment including people who assisted with security, the actual movement of fentanyl to the U.S. and the laundering of drug profits back to the cartel in Mexico.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 U.S. special forces to land In Mexico to train local marines at President Sheinbaum's request

Fully armed U.S. special forces will land in Mexico next week to begin a training course for Mexican marine infantry troops. The training will take place between February 17 and March 30 in the state of Campeche.

The mission was approved unanimously by a Senate commission at the request of President Claudia Sheinbaum. It will focus on conventional and non-conventional types of combat.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 US transfers land on Mexican border to the Army to prevent illegal crossings

The Trump administration announced an emergency transfer of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Army to help prevent illegal immigration, the Interior Department said on Tuesday.

The land, which crosses Hidalgo, Luna and Dona Ana counties in New Mexico, will be transferred to the Department of the Army for three years, the agency said, allowing for patrols by federal personnel and construction of infrastructure to prevent illegal crossings.

This is not the first time Trump has made such a move. In 2019, during his first term as president, the Interior Department made a similar transfer of 560 acres along the southern border to the Army to build a wall.

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🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico has received nearly 39,000 deportees from US since Trump took office

Mexico has received nearly 39,000 immigrants deported from the United States since the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, of which 33,000 are Mexicans, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday.

Sheinbaum said that although Mexico decided to accept non-Mexicans deported from the U.S. for "humanitarian reasons," only a few thousand have been sent to Mexico since Trump took office in late January.

"Fewer and fewer people are arriving from other countries because the U.S. government has agreements with practically all nations," Sheinbaum said.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 US sanctions Mexican cartel figures, including popular rapper El Makabelico

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced sanctions on assets of four individuals whom it linked to Mexico-based Cartel del Noreste, including the popular hip-hop artist El Makabelico.

Treasury said the sanctions target three "high-ranking members" of Cartel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel), which splintered off from Los Zetas, as well as a "prominent associate" of the group, Ricardo Hernandez, a 34-year-old musician known as El Makabelico who has millions of followers on social media.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 US charges five members of Mexico's United Cartels, imposes sanctions

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday charged five high-ranking members of the Carteles Unidos drug gang, known in English as United Cartels, while the Treasury Department announced it was imposing sanctions on the group.

United Cartels, which is less widely known than some of its rivals, controls large areas of Michoacan, Mexico. The Justice Department called it one of the "most prolific" methamphetamine producers, and said that the proceeds from its illicit drug sales are used to acquire weapons, hire mercenaries, and bribe local officials.

The State Department said it is offering collectively up to $26 million in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the five men.

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