Montserrat Arce

Katherine Yon Ebright

Benjamin T. Smith

Victoria Dittmar

Zach Beecher

Overview



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<li>Designation of Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations</li>
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President Trump's Executive Order of January 20, 2025



Foreign Terrorist Organizations - FTOs



Specially Designated Global Terrorists - SDGT



Next steps by the U.S. government



2. Implications of change in OFAC lists from narcotics traffickers to terrorists.



U.S. Treasury Department OFAC List



Sanctions



Money laundering and terrorist financing



3. Implications for Mexican and U.S. companies



Companies falling under the prohibition against providing “material support or resources” to terrorist organizations



Financial institutions operating in Mexico



Companies paying “derecho de piso”



U.S. weapons manufacturing companies



Comparison with Colombia case



 4. U.S. military intervention in Mexican territory



Legal instruments for armed intervention



The Alien Enemies Act



Right to self-defense



5. Will designation as terrorist organizations work to end the drug trafficking problem?



Speakers



Montserrat Arce



Montserrat Arce is a specialist in security and financial crime intelligence. She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Master's degree in War Studies from King’s College London. She has held various positions in academia, government, and the private sector, specializing in security risk research and analysis, with a focus on corruption, organized crime, human trafficking, economic sanctions, and money laundering.



Katherine Yon Ebright



Katherine Yon Ebright is a counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, where she focuses on war powers and the constitutional separation of powers. Ebright’s work has been published in outlets including the Chicago Tribune, the Hill, Lawfare, and Just Security, and her commentary has appeared in Axios, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, Semafor, Vox, and others.



She received an AB in social studies from Harvard College and a JD from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.



Benjamin T. Smith



Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He has written widely on issues of politics, religion, and journalism in modern Mexico. He currently specialises on the history of Mexican drug trade, and organized crime. His most recent book is The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (WW Norton, 2021)



Victoria Dittmar



Victoria Dittmar is an investigator and project manager at InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas. She has conducted investigations on illicit markets, criminal actors, and corruption in Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia. For the past three years, she has managed an investigation on the supply chain of synthetic drugs in Mexico. Dittmar is also a member of the Urban Violence Research Network and has collaborated with the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies in Vancouver. She holds a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Development from the University of Sussex.



Zach Beecher



Zach Beecher is Partner and Head of Growth Strategy at America’s Frontier Fund, advancing innovation at the intersection of technology and national security. A former 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper who deployed to Iraq, he has since led across venture capital, health tech, and defense strategy.&nbsp; He is a recent Penn-Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC.

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Montserrat Arce

Katherine Yon Ebright

Benjamin T. Smith

Victoria Dittmar

Zach Beecher

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