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The foreign terrorist organization label was built for groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda: organizations that use violence as an instrument of political ambition.
Since February 2025, the Trump administration has deliberately stretched that designation to cover financially motivated crime networks, and on Wednesday the State Department added Los Tiguerones, an Ecuador-based gang, expanding the U.S.
list of designated foreign terrorist groups in Latin America and the Caribbean to 21.
The designation's working mechanism Terrorist designations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, "expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S.
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