"Socalj" for Borderland Beat
On February 20, the announcement was officially made to designate two transnational gangs and 6 Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. The list is the same as we have reported on before, but each group was described in more detail. The US State Department outlined the territory in which each group operates, their criminal activity and level of violence, political influence, assassinations and terrorist type acts to qualify them to be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
