Overview

• The State Department offered up to $26 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of five leaders of Cárteles Unidos and Los Viagras.
• The Department of Justice unsealed indictments charging Juan José “El Abuelo” Farías Álvarez and other cartel figures with drug trafficking, extortion and weapons offenses.
• The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned cartel members and associates to freeze assets and disrupt illicit money flows across borders.
• An unarmed US drone conducted three hours of surveillance over Michoacán, Guerrero and Estado de México at Mexico’s request to gather intelligence on cartel operations.
• Carlos Alberto Treviño Medina, the ex-Pemex chief, remains detained in the US on a migration hold as Mexico seeks his deportation for corruption charges while his defense cites an active asylum claim and a canceled Interpol Red Notice.