OFAC Sanctions 5 People With Ties to Mexican Cartel

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned five people with links to the Gulf Cartel, which OFAC said is one of Mexico’s “most dangerous criminal organizations.” The designations target Ismael Guerra Salinas and his brother Omar Guerra Salinas, the Gulf Cartel members in charge of the Playa Bagdad region. Other designations target Francisco Javier Sierra Angulo, who leads the Gulf Cartel in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Raul Decuir Garcia and Ildelfonso Carrillo Sapien, who oversee boats that help the cartel move drugs and migrants into U.S. waters.