Foreign Terrorist Organizations

A recent cocaine seizure in southern Mexico points to a new trend as traffickers have increased land smuggling operations in response to the aggressive interdiction actions taken by the U.S. government, which have sunk numerous vessels in international waters.

A group of activists who search for missing persons has reported finding a new cartel killing field in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. So far, the group has found the remains of 14 victims while they continue looking for more. The region remains under the control of the terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel.

The second-highest-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel pleaded guilty this week to a federal drug conspiracy charge as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. The feared cartel boss is one of the top cartel figures that Mexico’s government sent to the U.S. in early 2025 after the Trump Administration began pressuring Mexico to take a hard line against drug cartels.

A member of the Sinaloa Cartel died over the weekend in an explosion shortly after flying into Mexico State. The incident has sparked renewed controversies about Mexico’s refusal to label cartels as terrorist organizations despite their terror-style tactics.

An Arizona gun dealer is facing terrorism charges in connection with a conspiracy to provide weapons to both Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Sinaloa Cartel. Both Mexican cartels are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. Department of State.

A group of cartel gunmen kidnapped eight workers on their way to work in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The incident comes at a time when the terrorist Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas continues to spread terror through northern Mexico.

Two Chinese pharmaceutical companies and six Chinese citizens have been indicted for allegedly supplying chemical precursors used to make fentanyl to be smuggled into the United States. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the indictments handed down by a federal grand jury in Ohio were connected to Operation Box Cutter and revealed an alliance between the Chinese companies and Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.

Mexican military forces clashed with several gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, killing 11 of them. The shootout came as a result of a series of raids in a luxurious suburb of Culiacan, where forces arrested the daughter of jailed cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Hours later, Mexican authorities released the woman despite U.S. authorities having identified her in the past as a money laundering operator for the cartel.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum fired back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump over some mocking comments made about her refusal to use military forces from both Mexico and the U.S. to eliminate cartels.

President Donald Trump rolled out a sweeping anti‑cartel doctrine Saturday, rallying a 17‑nation coalition behind a new hemispheric security pact that authorizes direct military action against cartel strongholds. The president’s speech highlighted the administration’s hard line, including the declaration that “the heart of our agreement is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks.” Conspicuously absent from the conference was Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Unknown individuals within Mexico’s Navy provided restricted weapons, tactical gear, and body armor to members of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The revelation comes from a former cartel hitman who revealed to authorities in April 2025 that he personally went to pick up stashed weapons for the criminal organization.

A large deployment of Mexican military and National Guard forces took to the streets of Jalisco to guard the wake and funeral of one of the country’s most dangerous drug lords, Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Due to the widespread corruption and cartel infiltration in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican military forces kept local and state authorities out of the loop in a recent operation targeting a commander with the Gulf Cartel. The raid took

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) formally charged two top lieutenants of the Sinaloa Cartel with terrorism and is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to their capture.

The terrorist Organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation has established a hierarchical structure that allows the criminal organization to control its vast territories throughout Mexico. Similar to how a large-scale company operates, the structure allowed the cartel’s underbosses to run day-to-day operations without the constant need for supervision from the cartel’s supreme leader, the late Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury had previously identified and sanctioned the exclusive resort cabins in Jalisco where the terrorist leader Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes had been hiding. The revelation highlights the impunity with which the drug boss operated in Mexico, where he felt safe staying in an area that had been identified by authorities since 2020.

Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government was looking into taking legal action against U.S. businessman Elon Musk over a series of comments he made on social media. The American social media executive reportedly claimed that Sheinbaum answered to her cartel bosses.

The Government of Mexico confirmed that 25 Mexican National Guardsmen, one prison guard, and an innocent woman died in a series of terror-style attacks that were a direct response to the killing of Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Cartel violence exploded across more than ten of Mexico’s 32 states on Sunday after the government of Mexico confirmed the death of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, triggering roadblocks, gunfire, and burning vehicle attacks from the Pacific Coast to the Texas border.

Cartel gunmen have begun carrying out terrorist attacks in various states in Mexico in response to the death of the country’s most powerful terrorist cartel leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. Mexico’s government confirmed the death of the cartel boss,

The recent arrest of a cartel figure in Jalisco has been linked to several extortion cases and arsons in the border city of Tijuana, Mexican authorities revealed.

The Venezuelan terrorist organization Tren De Aragua (TdA) is expanding dramatically in Mexico City and has become one of the leading criminal organizations in the Mexican capital city. TDA is one of several criminal organizations designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. government. The expansion in Mexico appears to be closely tied to the push by the U.S. government to track down its members and remove them from U.S. soil.

Authorities in Mexico arrested the mayor of Tequila, Jalisco, a city famous for the liquor bearing its name, in connection with an investigation into widespread corruption, extortion, and ties to the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).

Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America! Death to Israel!” while dressed in the uniforms of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during a Sunday parliamentary session, according to footage broadcast by state-linked media.

Two Mexican soldiers were kidnapped by a convoy of more than two dozen cartel gunmen in the Mexican state of Hidalgo after the troops stopped a tractor‑trailer hauling stolen fuel. The brazen daylight abduction left one serviceman dead and the other hospitalized.

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Pressure is mounting in Mexico for the government to begin using the term “terrorism” when referring to the hyper-violent attacks carried out by drug cartels in that country. The move goes against the wishes of the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who has repeatedly claimed that cartel violence is not terrorism.

A federal grand jury in Nebraska indicted 31 additional suspects — many of them Venezuelan and Colombian nationals linked to the violent Tren de Aragua gang — for a nationwide ATM “jackpotting” conspiracy that prosecutors say funneled millions of stolen dollars into a foreign terrorist organization operating inside the United States. This brings the total number of defendants in this scheme to 87, officials stated.

Ryan Wedding, a fugitive Canadian drug boss who is a former Olympian and had made the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list, surrendered to authorities in Mexico. Almost immediately following the arrest, FBI agents flew Wedding to the United States to stand trial on numerous federal charges.

A group of locals in Mexico rioted and assaulted Mexican soldiers after they shut down a town party known colloquially as Mencho-Fest, honoring the leader of the terrorist organization known as Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).

The U.S. government continues to pressure Mexico into allowing military forces to enter the country and target drug cartel labs and key figures. Despite the mounting pressure, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum continues to oppose the move, claiming to stand for

Border Patrol agents operating under Operation Portland reportedly opened fire while attempting to arrest suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang last week. The shooting followed a chaotic confrontation where the alleged gang-affiliated members weaponized their vehicle against the agents. Portland Police Bureau Chief Bob Day lost control of his emotions and began to cry as he later defended the operation during a tense news conference.

A spokeswoman for Mexico’s ruling party, MORENA, sparked considerable controversy after publicly claiming that fighting organized crime is not doable because cartels are one of the country’s largest employers. In response to the outrage sparked by the comment, the MORENA party issued a statement distancing itself from it and claiming that political opponents were taking it out of context to attack them.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she ordered her country’s top diplomat to speak with the highest levels of the U.S. government to work on improving binational coordination in order to keep U.S. forces from carrying out direct attacks against cartels inside Mexico. This appears to be her latest effort to protect the violent drug trafficking cartels that exert political influence at every level of her country.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a legal push against Hamas-linked groups in the U.S., citing the need to “decimate and dismantle” radical Islamic terrorist organizations and their “domestic supporting branches.”