US DOJ reveals that a high-ranking Los Zetas cartel member has pleaded guilty to a major drug trafficking conspiracy involving multi-ton shipments of cocaine and marijuana smuggled into the US

According to DOJ, Daniel Perez Rojas, a senior figure in the cartel, admitted to conspiring to distribute at least 5 kg of cocaine and 1,000 kg of marijuana for import into the U.S., reflecting the scale of the organisation’s trafficking operations. Prosecutors state that he played a key leadership role marked by violence, corruption and intimidation, including coordinating cartel expansion and violent acts, and now faces a sentence ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment…