The United States government listed the Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in November 2025.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The sources confirm the US formally designated Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, announced by the State Department on November 16, 2025 and effective November 24, 2025, with the Federal Register notice published that day. The extracted claim faithfully matches the passage, which also reports the November 2025 listing.
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… On behalf of the Venezuelan government. It used this as pretext to send 137 Venezuelan men with seemingly no connection at all to the gang to El Salvador's Sicot prison in March, where they suffered from torture. Along similar lines, in November 2025, the Us. Listed the Cartel de los Soles as an FTO. The Trump government had for a long time contended that Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan president, was the leader of the Cartel de los Soles, even though experts like those of Inside Crime claim it was more like a loose network of cells inside the Venezuelan …
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Supports. The State Department press statement dated November 16, 2025 says the Department intends to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, effective November 24, 2025.[3]
Supports. The Federal Register notice published 11/24/2025 by the Department of State formally designates Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the INA.[4][5]
Supports. Reuters and AP both reported on November 24, 2025 that the US formally designated Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization.[1][2]
Context. The AP reports the entity is not a cartel per se, and experts describe it differently, but this does not affect whether the US listed it as an FTO in November 2025.[2]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 primary
- 1US labels another Venezuelan group as terrorist, ramping ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2US labels Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 3Terrorist Designations of Cartel de los Solesstate.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation of Cartel de los Solesfederalregister.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5www.govinfo.gov › content › pkgFederal Register, Volume 90 Issue 224 (Monday, November 24, 2025)...govinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
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