{"id":488060,"date":"2025-10-24T20:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/what-do-the-us-sanctions-against-petro-and-his-family-imply\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:05:42","slug":"what-do-the-us-sanctions-against-petro-and-his-family-imply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/what-do-the-us-sanctions-against-petro-and-his-family-imply\/","title":{"rendered":"What do the US sanctions against Petro and his family imply?"},"content":{"rendered":"U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/570256-eeuu-sanciona-gustavo-petro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">included<\/a> this Friday the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro; his wife, Ver\u00f3nica Alcocer; his eldest son, Nicol\u00e1s Petro Burgos; and the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, in the &#8220;list of specially designated nationals&#8221;, also known as <strong>&#8220;SDN list&#8221;<\/strong> of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in English) of the Department of the Treasury.\n\nThe sanction has been made under a publication titled &#8220;Anti-narcotics Designations&#8221;. Petro, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a> the Department of the Treasury, is accused of &#8220;having participated in or attempted to participate in activities or transactions that have materially contributed or represent <strong>a significant risk<\/strong> of materially contributing to the international proliferation of illicit drugs or their means of production&#8221;.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/EE.UU. sanciona a Petro\">http:\/\/EE.UU. sanciona a Petro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWhile Alcocer, Petro Burgos and <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/570259-gringos-go-home-ministro-colombia-eeuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benedetti<\/a>, labeled as <strong>&#8220;associates and facilitators&#8221;<\/strong> of the president, are accused of &#8220;having provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material or technological support, or goods or services in support of Gustavo Petro&#8221;.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scope of the measure<\/h3>\n\n\nAccording to the Treasury Department itself, the inclusion of these people on the SDN list implies:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Asset freeze<\/strong>: all assets of sanctioned individuals located in the U.S. are frozen and must be reported to OFAC, including bank accounts, properties, and investments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transaction ban<\/strong>: U.S. citizens and firms are prohibited from conducting financial transactions with sanctioned individuals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Possible isolation<\/strong>: financial institutions and other individuals may also risk being exposed to sanctions for participating in certain transactions or activities involving individuals on the SDN list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. included this Friday the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro; his wife, Ver\u00f3nica Alcocer; his eldest son, Nicol\u00e1s Petro Burgos; and the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, in the &#8220;list of specially designated nationals&#8221;, also known as &#8220;SDN list&#8221; of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in English) of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":488061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[14610,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-488060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-gustavo-petro","9":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/68fbe9ebe9ff716d3324adac.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22XW","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/68fbe9ebe9ff716d3324adac.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}