Mexican woman sentenced for running cartel-linked human trafficking ring in Texas

A 27-year-old Mexican woman, Giovana Lozano Hernández, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison in the United States for her role as the financial manager of a human trafficking operation linked to the Cartel del Noreste. U.S. authorities revealed that she and her husband oversaw money flows and logistics for smuggling over 1,900 migrants into the country, reaping enormous illicit profits. The sentencing follows a December raid that uncovered 101 migrants—12 of them children—crammed int