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Mexican woman charged in US with supplying arms to ‘terrorist’ drug cartel

The letters ‘CJNG’ are scrawled on the facade of an abandoned home
The letters ‘CJNG’ for the Jalisco New Generation cartel, are scrawled on an abandoned home, in El Limoncito, in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

A 39-year-old woman has become the first Mexican national to be indicted in the United States on charges of providing material support to a cartel designated as a foreign terrorist organization, according to the US Department of Justice.

María Del Rosario Navarro is accused of conspiring with others to provide grenades to the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG), a powerful Mexican crime faction that the US in February designated as a terrorist organization alongside other criminal groups across Latin America.

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