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Trump Admin Sanctions Yet Another Cartel And Its Leader, Now For Oil Theft

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The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on the "Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima" (CSRL) after determining that the criminal organization was stealing fuel and crude oil from Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex.

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also targeted the organization's leader: Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz, known as "the sledgehammer."

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