rorist Organizations) designations play a critical role 
in our fight against terrorism and are an effective 
means of curtailing support for terrorist activities 
and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism 
business.’’. 
(2) Assistant Secretary Brownfield acknowl-
edged in sworn testimony on October 4, 2011, that 
‘‘[M]any of the facts on the ground, the things that 
are being done by those organizations (drug cartels), 
are consistent with what we would call either ter-
rorism or insurgency in other countries.’’. 
(3) On October 27, 2011, Secretary Clinton 
during a Congressional Hearing stated: ‘‘. . . we are 
sensitive to the characteristics that some of these 
drug traffickers have adopted that certainly resemble 
terrorist activities . . . I have said it has character-
istics of an insurgency . . .’’. 
(4) When Americans at home and abroad, in-
cluding agents assigned to protect United States 
borders and national security, are targeted, threat-
ened, and attacked by such foreign entities, it 
threatens the safety and security of the United 
States and its people. 
(5) Mexican drug cartels maintain drug-dis-
tribution networks, or supply drugs to distributors, 
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in at least 230 American cities, leading the Justice 
Department to call Mexican drug cartels the ‘‘great-
est organized crime threat’’ to the United States. 
(6) On March 13, 2010, Lesley A. Enriquez, an 
employee of the United States consulate in Mexico, 
and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, a detention of-
ficer with the El Paso County Jail, were targeted 
and killed allegedly by a drug trafficking organiza-
tion (DTO). 
(7) On February 15, 2011, the Zeta DTO bold-
ly attacked and killed United States Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement agent Jamie Zapata, and 
wounded a second agent, Victor Avila. 
(8) Since President Caldero´n took office in late 
2006, assaults on Border Patrol agents have in-
creased from 729 in fiscal year 2006 to 1,039 in fis-
cal year 2011. 
(9) In Mexico, there have been over 8,000 
homicides in 2011, increasing the number of deaths 
related to organized crime and pushing the number 
of deaths to over 40,000 since President Caldero´n 
came to office in late 2006. 
(10) In early August 2010, President Caldero´n 
described the violence perpetrated by the DTOs as 
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‘‘a challenge to the state, an attempt to replace the 
state’’. 
(11) In 2010 there were 13 political assassina-
tions, including several that took place around the 
July municipal and state elections. 
(12) In the 5 years of the Caldero´n govern-
ment’s crackdown on the DTOs, more than 40 jour-
nalists in Mexico have been murdered or disappeared 
according to the International Committee to Protect 
Journalists, including at least 7 journalists in 2011. 
(13) DTOs use car bombs, displays of mur-
dered individuals, body mutilations, beheadings, and 
other indiscriminate attacks on civilians, including 
the August 25, 2011, Casino Royale arson fire in 
Monterrey, to intimidate the public. 
(14) President Caldero´n’s response to a DTO’s 
burning of the Casino Royale and murder of 52 in-
nocent civilians was, ‘‘We are facing true terrorists 
. . .’’. 
(15) The Mexican drug cartels meet all of the 
legal criteria for designation as foreign terrorist or-
ganizations under section 219 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189): 
(A) The organizations are foreign organi-
zations. 
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(B) The organizations engage in terrorist 
activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(a)(3)(B))) or terrorism (as defined in sec-
tion 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Author-
ization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 
U.S.C. 2656f(d)(2))), or retain the capability 
and intent to engage in terrorist activity or ter-
rorism. 
(C) The terrorist activity or terrorism of 
the organizations threatens the security of 
United States nationals or the national security 
of the United States. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION. 
The Secretary of State shall designate under section 
219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189) as a foreign terrorist organization the following: 
(1) The Arellano Felix Organization. 
(2) The Los Zetas Cartel. 
(3) The Juarez Cartel. 
(4) The Beltran Leyva Organization. 
(5) La Familia Michoacana. 
(6) The Sinaloa Cartel. 
(7) The Gulf Cartel/New Federation. 
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SEC. 3. REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall sub-
mit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate a report on the activities the Depart-
ment of State is taking to assist Mexico with drug cartel 
violence, including programs under the Merida Initiative, 
training programs, and equipment. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Merida 
Initiative’’ means the program announced by the United 
States and Mexico on October 22, 2007, to fight illicit nar-
cotics trafficking and criminal organizations throughout 
the Western Hemisphere. 
Æ 
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