What is Operation Spike Plaza? The United States wants to arrest the plaza leaders of the CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel

2024-04-13 12:22:14

What is Operation Spike Plaza? This is the new strategy of USA to arrest the plaza leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa cartel.

The operation will be led by law enforcement agencies such as United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Derived from the drug crisis in the United States, Operation Plaza Spike will have the objective of capturing fentanyl distributors, such as Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada y Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, alias ‘El Gigio.

In this sense, it is established that the US authorities have the power to investigate operations in national territory, so the proposal goes beyond just arresting drug lords.

What does Operation Spike Plaza consist of?

The United States has promised “put a heavy hand” against the large drug distributors, starting with the ‘fentanyl king in Sonora’, better known as “El Mayo Zambada”, accused of distributing this drug from Mexico to the border with the United States.

In this operation, the fact that the Mexican forces will not actively participate stands out, so it will be a project carried out solely and exclusively by the US government, with the aim of stopping fentanyl trafficking.

Although it states that its main objective is the arrest of Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, alias ‘El Gigio’, who is in charge of the fentanyl transfer in Nogales, Arizona, federal agencies are contemplating capturing other drug trafficking leaders.

These are the main axes on which the Plaza Spike operation will focus:

• Seizure of illicit profits,
• Review of cross-border business entities
• Pressure the capture of criminal leaders by publishing their names

Operation Plaza Spike will be carried out in the southern United States with the objective of disrupting criminal operations, whose criminal activity includes drug, weapons and human trafficking.

Likewise, it is maintained that this operation has the purpose of anticipate, identify, mitigate and reduce producers, suppliers and traffickers of synthetic drugs.

Ismael ‘el Mayo’ Zambada (Process/Special)

Fentanyl is the leading cause of death of young people in the United States

Fentanyl is, according to censuses, the leading cause of death in the United States in people between 18 to 45 years old.

In 2023 alone, more than 107 thousand deaths due to overdose in young people and adults under 45 years of age.

Due to its high mortality, the federal operation will focus on the plazas or areas where fentanyl smuggling into the United States is controlled. beginning with Plaza Nogales, located directly south of the border crossing in Nogales, Arizona.

Fentanyl (DEA)

2024-04-13 12:22:14