The Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on five high-ranking members of Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for their involvement in drug trafficking and killings.

The Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on five high-ranking members of Mexico's powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for their involvement in drug trafficking and killings.

Previous administrations have also sanctioned the cartel – one of Mexico’s most powerful -- as the Trump administration also did in May, when it targeted the cartel’s fuel theft operations.

The other cartel members sanctioned were Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez, Oseguera’s son-in-law, who allegedly runs the cartel’s operations in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, and Audias ...

The Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on five high-ranking members of Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for their involvement in drug trafficking and killings.