OFAC designates Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a global terrorist group for drug trafficking and aiding foreign terror groups – targeting state‑backed corruption and narcotrafficking

OFAC designates the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist due to its involvement in large-scale narcotics trafficking and its provision of material support to foreign terrorist organisations, including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel. These actions undermine regional security and contribute to transnational organised crime, prompting the sanctions to disrupt the cartel’s financial networks and restrict its operational capabilities…