US designates 3 Guatemalan groups as terrorist organizations

The US State Department named Los Lorenzanas a Foreign Terrorist Organization and sanctioned Los Huistas and Los Mendoza for material support to Mexican cartels. This expands US counterterrorism designations into Central American criminal networks, signaling a policy shift toward treating drug trafficking organizations as terrorist entities. The move may affect regional security cooperation and US-Guatemala relations.

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