Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Juan Jose MORALES CIFUENTES

Aliases

PANCHO

Nationality

Guatemala

DoB

1990-04-09

Address

Colonia 3 de mayo, Tecun Uman, San Marcos, Guatemala

Reg. ID

2755498951217, C.U.I.; 59536969, NIT #; L-1238436, Cedula No.

Official reason

Juan Jose Morales Cifuentes (Morales Cifuentes), a leader of the Los Pochos DTO since 2019, is a Guatemala-based cocaine distributor and transportation coordinator associated with the Sinaloa Cartel and the son-in-law of deceased significant foreign narcotics trafficker Suñiga Rodriguez. Morales Cifuentes takes advantage of his political connection...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2133

Date of listing

2024-02-28

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 14059 of December 15, 2021 Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade

Regime

OFAC-horizontal

Target State

Drugs

Measures

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

Official Information

President Biden signed a new Executive Order (E.O.) to modernize the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s sanctions authorities used to combat the illicit drug trade. This E.O. will provide the Treasury Department with new tools to tackle changes in the global illicit drug trade that substantially contributed to over 100,000 American overdose deaths i...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27505/imposing-sanctions-on-foreign-persons-involved-in-the-global-illicit-drug-trade