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Last Updated: April 20, 2026

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Jose de Jesus MENDEZ VARGAS

Aliases

Jesus MENDEZ VARGAS

Jesus MENDEZ

CHANGO

EL CHANGO

CHANGO MENDEZ

CHUY

CHUY MENDEZ

CHAMULA

Nationality

Mexico

DoB

1974-02-28; 1973-08-06; 1989-09-18

Address

Tazumbos, Jalisco, Mexico; Calle Dr. Lose Luis Mora Col Morelos, Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico; Calle Carlos Salazar Col Buenos Aires, Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico; Toluca, Mexico, Mexico; Calle Acatitla 122, Col. Ferrocarril, Apatzingan, Mexico; Potrero Grande de C de Paracuaro, Apatzingan, Mexico; c/o Club Abaro, Ave Vicente Villada, Mexico City, Municipio de Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Reg. ID

MEVJ890918HGRNRS09, C.U.R.P.

Official reason

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated seven key leaders of the international drug trafficking organization La Familia Michoacana (La Familia) as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs).   Today's designation targets two principal leaders of La Familia, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez (El Chayo) and Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas (El Chango), and five of their lieutenants.

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg564

Date of listing

2010-02-25

Program information
Program information
Authority

US

Program

Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598

Regime

OFAC-horizontal

Target State

Drugs

Measures

Blocking Property

Official Information

The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 598 (FNKSR), implement the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901–1908), which provides authority for the application of sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations operating worldwide.

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL
  • https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/17/2021-10314/narcotics-trafficking-sanctions-regulations-and-foreign-narcotics-kingpin-sanctions-regulations

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