Argentina designates five groups as terrorist organisations

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 22 Oct, 19:03 · Archive

Argentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups, including Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, as terrorist organisations.

Argentina's government has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups as terrorist organisations, published in the official gazette on Thursday. The designations include Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Nueva Familia Michoacana cartel, Ecuador's Los Tiguerones gang, Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN), and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP), a dissident faction that rejected a peace agreement a decade ago.

President Javier Milei's office said the five groups were linked to drug trafficking and organised crime. The government described the Sinaloa cartel as a transnational organisation involved in drug trafficking and kidnapping for ransom. It characterised the ELN and FARC-EP as far-left insurgent groups rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology and armed revolution, and Los Tiguerones as one of the region's most violent criminal groups linked to contract killings and drug trafficking.

The move aligns Argentina with the United States, its close ally. The decision comes a month after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration expanded its list of Latin American criminal groups designated as foreign terrorist organisations to 21, with several of Argentina's newly designated groups already on that list. Two weeks earlier, Milei's government announced that the United States had established a regional unit of the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in Argentina, with Washington approving $13.35 million to strengthen efforts against drug trafficking and organised crime.

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• Argentina designates 5 Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups as terrorist organizationsArgentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups, including Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as terrorist organizations.Clickorlando · 22 Oct, 18:34
• Argentina designates 5 Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups as terrorist organizationsArgentina has designated five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups, including Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as terrorist organizations.News4Jax · 22 Oct, 18:34

In this story: Argentina · Javier Milei · Mexico · Sinaloa cartel · Colombia · Ecuador · United States · Donald Trump

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