The United States states a Mexican citizen for terrorism to help cartel

Mexico city – A Mexican citizen will be exposed to charges for the provision of material support for a terrorist organization for the first time because they allegedly conspired to traffic weapons, grenades, drugs and migrants for a drug cartel, the US prosecutor said on Friday. The cartel was recently appointed foreign terrorist organization.

An indictment for the crimes by Maria del Rosario Navarro Sanchez, a 39-year-old Mexican, was sealed on Friday in the western district of Texas. It was not immediately clear whether Navarro Sanchez had a lawyer.

It was only a few days after an indictment in San Diego had not been sealed against two alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders due to narco-terrorism suspicions.

Navarro Sanchez was arrested on May 4, according to a statement by the US Attorney General of Mexican authorities. One of the things found with her was a assault rifle in the Golden AR-15 style.

The prosecutors said that Navarro Sanchez supported the Jalalco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful and most violent organized crime groups of Mexico. It is said to have conspired to give the antitrust grenades, to buy weapons for them, to smuggle money across the border and to move drugs.

Two men were also charged in the indictment, although they do not provide material support for a terrorist organization.

In February, the Jalalco New Generation Cartel belonged to the administration of US President Donald Trump under eight Latin American criminal groups, which were shown as foreign terrorist organizations. He had requested the move to an executive regulation signed in January.

The label “Foreign Terrorist Organization” is unusual because it uses a terrorist name that is usually reserved for groups such as al-Qaida or the Islamic state group, the violence for political purposes for money equipment such as the Latin American cartels.

The Trump administration argues that the international connections and operations of the groups – including drug trafficking, migrant smuggling and violent urging to extend their territory, justify the name.

The Jalalco Cartel was a six -organized crime groups that were given the name.

“The arrest of Maria del Rosario Navarro Sanchez should send people who want to adapt to terrorist groups a clear message that they are sought and recorded to the greatest degree,” said FBI director Kash Patel in the explanation.

Trump has made it clear that he wants to throw all sorts of Mexico's cartels for the United States' flooding with Fentanyl. The new administration of Mexico has shown the willingness to help to pursue antitrust operations and to make arrests like Navarro Sanchez.