The U.S. Treasury Department this week rolled out new sanctions on three individuals and two casinos in Mexico that it says work on behalf of a major drug cartel.
The two casinos are in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, and the Treasury Department accuses them of being controlled by the Cartel de Noroeste.
This comes after the department last year sanctioned several other casinos in Sinaloa and Sonora, just south of the Arizona border, that it says are linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
The Trump administration early last year designated both of those cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The new slate of sanctions also include three individuals — one being a Mexican human rights activist who the Treasury Department says is on the Cartel de Noroeste payroll.
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