The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned eight Mexico-based men affiliated with La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel for trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine into the United States, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced.
La Nueva Familia Michoacana, one of the most powerful and violent cartels in Mexico, also smuggles migrants from Mexico into the United States, according to a Treasury Department statement.