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Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration Imposes Broad Sanctions on the Government of Venezuela

• In a further escalation of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela in support of its efforts to oust the regime of Nicolás Maduro, on August 5, 2019, the Trump administration imposed comprehensive sanctions on the Government of...more

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United States Imposes Sanctions on Russia; More Significant Sanctions Possible

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The Situation: The U.S. government imposed initial sanctions on Russia under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991. The sanctions relate to the March 2018 attempted assassination of...more

The Volkov Law Group

OFAC Begins to Re-Impose Iran Sanctions and Expands Reach of Previous Sanctions

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The Trump Administration issued a new executive order on August 6, 2018, in order to reimpose the first tranche of the Iran sanctions lifted by the former Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”). ...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

US Persons and Financial Institutions: Beware when engaging financially with Venezuela

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On 8/25/17, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) restricting and prohibiting certain transactions between US Persons and Venezuela. The transactions that are prohibited by US Persons apply wherever a US...more

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