U.S. Designates Ecuador’s Los Tiguerones Gang as Terrorist Group (Gift Article)

Designating gangs and cartels as FTOs has been an innovation of Trump 2.0 and is part of its narrative about a new “war on terror” against the narcos. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/w...

Like entomologists discovering new moths, the Trump administration keeps coming up with Latin American criminal groups to classify as “terrorist.” Even as those groups thrive on relationships with corrupt officials in the governments the admin aligns with.

You get a designation, and you get a designation. Everybody gets a designation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/w...

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U.S. Designates Ecuadorean Gang as Terrorist Group The sanctions that will now be imposed on Los Tiguerones are an increasingly common U.S. tactic, though they unlikely to hurt the gang financially.