<p>MEXICO CITY, April 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a well-known human rights activist in Mexico who has for years levied charges of human rights abuses against the country&#8217;s Armed Forces, alleging he worked on behalf of a powerful drug cartel.</p>
<p>The U.S. Treasury Department accused Raymundo Ramos, president of the Committee for Human Rights of Nuevo Laredo, of &#8220;posing as a &#8216;human rights&#8217; activist&#8221; for more than a decade in order to fabricate false accusations against the Army and protect members of the powerful Cartel of the Northeast (CDN).</p>
<p>&#8220;On the CDN payroll, Ramos engages in these activities with the goal of boosting the public opinion of CDN and discrediting Mexican authorities’ law enforcement initiatives against the cartel,&#8221; the Treasury Department said in a statement.</p>
<p>Washington&#8217;s move blocks any assets Ramos might have in the United States and bars Americans from working with him.</p>
<p>Ramos did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment about the accusations. Based in Nuevo Laredo, an ultra-violent city in the state of Tamaulipas, bordering the United States, Ramos has long been one of the most high-profile human rights activists operating in the area.</p>
<p>In 2023, Ramos raised the alarm over alleged extrajudicial killings committed by the Armed Forces. A year earlier, he accused members of the Navy of forcibly disappearing civilians.</p>
<p>In both instances, Mexican authorities detained military officials and carried out investigations. It&#8217;s unclear whether the investigations resulted in formal charges or convictions.</p>
<p>The Mexican attorney general&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment about the accusations against Ramos or whether it is independently investigating him.</p>
<p>In 2020, the Mexican government targeted Ramos&#8217; phone with the Pegasus spyware program, according to Mexico’s Digital Rights Defense Network and the Toronto-based digital watchdog Citizen Lab. He was among hundreds of Mexican activists and journalists spied on by the government using the spyware, the groups said.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Lizbeth Díaz; Editing by Raúl Cortés, Emily Green and Sonali Paul)</p>

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