Former boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been released from jail in northern Mexico as he awaits trial over alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, local media reported Sunday.

The United States on Friday officially designated a group it alleges is tied to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for supporting organized crime, including the Tren de Aragua gang and Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel—both labeled foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S.

A shootout near the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico's defense ministry said on Tuesday, as intra-cartel violence intensifies, News.Az reports citing Reuters .

A surge of violence between rival drug gangs in Mexico's northwestern state of Sinaloa has resulted in at least 192 deaths since September 9, according to the State Public Security Council, a local civilian-led watchdog.