Blanche’s rhetoric echoed the broader approach of the Trump administration, which has increasingly made combatting cartels a centrepiece of its national security agenda. “Narco-terrorist organisations like the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generation are responsible for countless deaths to Americans,” Blanche said on Wednesday, repeating a frequent administration talking point. CJNG is one of at least eight Mexican criminal networks to be labelled a “foreign terrorist organisation“, alongside groups like the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel del Noreste. In a statement, the US State Department said the rewards would “complement” newly unsealed criminal charges against five alleged high-ranking members of the cartel. The raid came as the Trump administration pressured Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to take more drastic actions against the cartels.