Argentina declared five Latin American criminal and guerrilla groups terrorist organizations on Thursday, including Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Colombia’s FARC-EP, and added them to its national terrorism register.
The decision was published as Joint Resolution 5/2026 of the Security and Foreign ministries in the Boletín Oficial, the government’s official gazette. The president’s office announced it the night before. The register, known as RePET, lists people and groups tied to terrorism and its financing; the government says it helps agencies share information and cooperate with other countries.
For the Sinaloa Cartel, the government said the listing settles “a debt” Argentina owed in its commitment to fighting narco-terrorism, since the United States and other countries had already designated it. Washington also lists the other four groups. The presidential statement describes La Nueva Familia Michoacana as a trafficker of drugs that also runs illegal mining, and Los Tiguerones as an Ecuadorean cartel involved in contract killings.
The FARC-EP is the name used by dissident factions of Colombia’s former FARC rebels who rejected the 2016 peace agreement; the ELN is Colombia’s other main guerrilla group. The presidential statement calls both far-left insurgents whose regional networks are “capable of projecting their activities toward our country,” a risk it says goes beyond strictly domestic Colombian crime and compromises Argentine national security.
The designation puts Argentina’s list in line with Washington’s on all five groups, as President Milei’s government has done with other organizations over the past year.
Argentina has used the same register for Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns, Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which it listed in March, and Ecuador’s Los Chone Killers, which it listed in August.