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Designating Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorists: What It Means
by Jaeson Jones

President Donald J. Trump recently announced the United States is on its way to formally designating some of Mexico’s cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The move will have a global impact on the day-to-day capabilities of a designee to operate with impunity. If this designation process comes into effect, it is vital the pubic understands what a potential designation means and how it becomes a reality.

THE PROCESS ...

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The financial markets on a global scale must consider the threat of knowingly processing cartel funds. Authorities can send people to jail for supporting cartels, but you must disrupt the ability to make money in order to bring down organizations for good. U.S. law enforcement and the intelligence community have openly discussed the importance of following and seizing funds to cripple a terrorist’s operational capabilities. Attacking a cartel’s financial network is a lengthy process under conventional bureaucratic rules in the absence of an FTO designation.

Speed is critical when using U.S. financial institutions to move money before law enforcement can act. It is expensive to employ armies of gunmen with military-grade weapons.

Full article:

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/12/03/designating-mexican-cartels-as-foreign-terrorists-what-it-means/

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