A new series of actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury highlights the way one of the most sadistic terrorist organizations in Mexico — responsible for mass killings and incinerations — uses horse racing, construction companies, and gas companies to launder their proceeds and also fund political campaigns.
\n\nIn a new series of sanctions, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four individuals from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas and several companies connected to them.
\n\nAs Breitbart Texas reported, Los Zetas is one of Mexico’s most violent cartels with a long history of mass killings, including women and children. In 2014, Breitbart Texas first reported on how Los Zetas kidnapped, murdered, and incinerated over 300 victims from one town in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. In the following years, authorities have been unable to determine an exact count of the victims who were taken.
\n\nThe U.S. Treasury also linked Los Zetas to a 2011 mass murder where the hyperviolent cartel locked down a casino in Monterrey and set fire to the building. The terrorist action resulted in the deaths of 52 victims and the injury of dozens of others. The majority of the…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
