U.S. Sanctions Gulf Cartel

This is a Texas news story, published by CBS News, that relates primarily to The U.S. Treasury Department news.

Texas news

For more Texas news, you can click here:

more Texas news

News about latin america economy

For more latin america economy news, you can click here:

more latin america economy news

CBS News news

For more news from CBS News, you can click here:

more news from CBS News

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best business news, entertainment news, world news, and much more. If you like this article about latin america economy, you might also like this article about

Gulf drug cartel

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest Mexican fishing boats news, Gulf Cartel news, news about latin america economy, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Mexican fishing vessels

CBS News

•

Drug cartel reeling in huge profits with illegal fishing of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. says

Summary

Nutrition label

77% Informative

The U.S. Treasury Department announces sanctions against members of the Gulf drug cartel.

The cartel operates in the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros , across from McAllen and Brownsville , Texas .

The department says the cartel uses fishing boats to facilitate drug and migrant smuggling.

Along the way, the boats catch tons of red snapper, a commercially valuable but vulnerable species.

The cartels sell their catch in Mexican border cities, where they are sometimes shipped into Texas for resale.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on a group of Mexican accountants and firms allegedly linked to the Jalisco cartel in a multi-million dollar scheme targeting Americans .

The Treasury Department also announced sanctions against eight targets affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel, La Nueva Familia Michoacana , accused of fentanyl trafficking and human smuggling.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful