Department of State Press Briefing — Los Chapitos Sanctions, Hamas Sham-Charity Sanctions, and Deputy Secretary Landau's Trip, Jun. 10, 2025

Name: "Department of State Press Briefing — Los Chapitos Sanctions, Hamas Sham-Charity Sanctions, and Deputy Secretary Landau's Trip, Jun. 10, 2025"
Uploaded: 2025-06-10
Duration: 1 h 51 min 10 s
Description: "Spokesperson Tammy Bruce leads the State Department briefing, announcing sanctions on the Sinaloa cartel's Los Chapitos faction and on sham charities supporting Hamas, and Deputy Secretary Landau's travel to Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala, according to the State Department upload."

June 10, 2025 · U.S. Department of State · 1:51:10

Embedded from the source channel — never re-uploaded. Watch on YouTube

What happened

In the announcements portion of the briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said, as she stated it, that the United States had announced the previous day that it is sanctioning Los Chapitos, a powerful faction of the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel, along with its two fugitive leaders, and designating Los Chapitos associates and businesses based in Mazatlán for kidnapping and money laundering, as she stated it, adding that under Secretary Rubio the department will continue disrupting the revenue streams funding Mexico-based cartels, as she stated it.

Bruce said, as she stated it, that Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau will travel to Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala from June 10th to the 13th to strengthen diplomatic ties, drive private-sector-led economic growth and investment, and highlight the importance of ending illegal immigration, as she stated it. She also announced, as she stated it, that the United States sanctioned five individuals and five sham charities for financially supporting Hamas under the guise of humanitarian work, and is targeting a fraudulent charity linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as she stated it.

In questions, Bruce discussed, as she stated it, the Los Angeles situation as part of a whole-of-government effort involving the State Department, DOJ, ICE, DHS, and the White House to remove criminal illegal aliens, and declined, as she stated it, to characterize Ambassador Huckabee’s remarks questioning a two-state solution, saying he speaks for himself while ambassadors work with their host country, as she stated it. Spokesperson Bruce is not among this site’s tracked officials, so the page carries no official tag.

Why it matters

The sanctions announcements extend the administration’s strategy of treating cartels and terror finance as one target set — a Sinaloa faction, its Mazatlán network, and Hamas’s sham charities in a single briefing — while the Landau trip carries the migration and investment message to the region.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, “Department of State Press Briefing - June 10, 2025 - 2:00 PM”, 2025-06-10 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-06-10). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.