{"id":1927412,"date":"2023-05-09T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-members-for-alleged-role-in-illicit-fentanyl-trade\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T21:14:36","slug":"us-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-members-for-alleged-role-in-illicit-fentanyl-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-members-for-alleged-role-in-illicit-fentanyl-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposes more sanctions on Sinaloa Cartel members for involvement in illegal fentanyl trade."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-members-for-alleged-role-in-illicit-fentanyl-trade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>US Sanctions Four Members of Sinaloa Cartel for Fentanyl Trade<\/h2>\n<h3>What Happened?<\/h3>\n<p>The United States has imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fascist-mi-ag-dana-nessel-threatens-lawyer-who-released-results-of-forensic-exam-of-16-dominion-voting-machines-in-antrim-co\/\" title=\"\u201cFascist\u201d MI AG Dana Nessel Threatens Lawyer Who Released Results Of Forensic Exam of 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co.\">financial sanctions<\/a> on four members of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the son of notorious druglord &#8220;El Chapo,&#8221; for their alleged involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-demands-lifting-of-sanctions-on-fine-suits-and-premium-liquor-before-nuclear-talks-resume\/\" title=\"North Korea Demands Lifting Of Sanctions On Fine Suits And Premium Liquor Before Nuclear Talks Resume\">illicit trade<\/a> of fentanyl and other drugs. The US Treasury Department has also sanctioned two Mexico-based companies.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Was Sanctioned?<\/h3>\n<p>The financial sanctions were imposed on Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Sa\u00fal P\u00e1ez L\u00f3pez, Raymundo P\u00e9rez Uribe, and Mario Esteban Ogazon Sedano. Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, a member of &#8220;the Chapitos,&#8221; is the son of former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaqu\u00edn &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzm\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Is This Significant?<\/h3>\n<p>In a press release, the Drug Enforcement Administration&#8217;s administrator, Anne Milgram, explained the Sinaloa Cartel&#8217;s poisonous nature and the agency&#8217;s efforts against the group. &#8220;The Chapitos pioneered the manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-only-billionaires-human-traffickers-and-fentanyl-dealers-are-better-off-under-biden\/\" title=\"Sen Cruz: Only Billionaires, Human Traffickers, and Fentanyl Dealers Are Better Off Under Biden\">deadliest drug threat<\/a> our country has ever faced\u2014flooded it into the United States for the past eight years and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department&#8217;s Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson, explained the significance of the latest actions taken in the fight against fentanyl. &#8220;Today&#8217;s action continues to disrupt key nodes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-members-for-alleged-role-in-illicit-fentanyl-trade\/\" title=\"US imposes more sanctions on Sinaloa Cartel members for involvement in illegal fentanyl trade.\">global illicit fentanyl enterprise<\/a>, including the producers, suppliers, and transporters,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Treasury, in close coordination with the Government of Mexico and US law enforcement, will continue to leverage our authorities to isolate and disrupt Los Chapitos and the Sinaloa Cartel&#8217;s operations at every juncture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The US government&#8217;s actions against the Sinaloa Cartel and its members demonstrate its commitment to fighting the deadly trade of fentanyl and other drugs. By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-vows-strong-response-if-u-s-sanctions-china-over-ukraine\/\" title=\"Beijing Vows 'Strong Response' if U.S. Sanctions China over Ukraine\">imposing financial sanctions<\/a> and disrupting key nodes of the global illicit fentanyl enterprise, the US is taking a significant step towards protecting its citizens from the harmful effects of these dangerous substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States announced on May 9 it has sanctioned four members of the Sinaloa Cartel\u2014including the son of druglord \u201cEl Chapo\u201d\u2014for their alleged role in illicit trade of fentanyl and other drugs. The U.S. Treasury Department also announced it has sanctioned\u00a0two Mexico-based companies. Financial sanctions were levied against Joaqu\u00cdn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, Sa\u00fal P\u00e1ez L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1927413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7112,10250,4207,3948,6998,5036,7114,7221],"class_list":["post-1927412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cartel","tag-fentanyl","tag-illegal","tag-imposes","tag-involvement","tag-sanctions","tag-sinaloa","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}