Overview
- Argentina, which announced the step Thursday, added CJNG to its terrorism registry to trigger financial freezes and operational limits.
- President Javier Milei’s office said official reports documented illicit transnational activity by the cartel and links to other terrorist entities.
- The move aligns with the United States, which listed CJNG as a terrorist group in 2025, and is intended to streamline security and judicial coordination with partners.
- CJNG has been tied to large-scale fentanyl trafficking, extortion and attacks on Mexican security forces, and its founder, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, was killed in February in a Mexican army operation backed by U.S. intelligence.
- Mexico maintains that cartels are profit-driven rather than political, a position that may strain coordination even as Argentina seeks to protect its financial system and monitor a group officials say now operates in more than 40 countries, including Argentina.