Launching a new forever war against drug cartels would likely be illegal, and almost certainly ineffective (via @opinion) https://t.co/i1UYwuCTiU ...

The US Treasury’s top official for combating terrorism financing will visit Mexico this week to hammer home the Trump administration’s push to target the banking of drug cartels https://t.co/WEmRiqpLSd ...

Do you think we will start doing strikes on the mainland Venezuela. Oh, >> we'll see what happens. >> Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a crisis point.>> There's been a very rapid buildup in the region, which is pretty unprecedented in modern times. >> The Trump administration has shown it will use lethal force to combat drug cartels, and it's repeatedly tied Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to drug trafficking. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government of Venezuela.It is a nar ...

Moments ago, President Trump posted on social media that the US military carried out a second strike targeting drug cartels that he says were transporting illegal narcotics to the US. The president also posting this video and it comes as the Trump administration looks to ramp up pressure on the Madura regime in Venezuela. >> He said that this was the second strike as you mentioned Yamich.uh three males he says who had left Venezuela who he claims were uh narot traffickers he calls them specifically terroris ...

Moments ago, President Trump posted on social media that the US military carried out a second strike targeting drug cartels that he says were transporting illegal narcotics, illegal narcotics to the US. The president also posting this video. It follows a similar strike carried out earlier this month in the southern Caribbean.And it comes as the Trump administration looks to ramp up pressure on the Madura regime in Venezuela. Joining me now is NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney QB. And ...

The United States has long for many, many years established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats. And we did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know, 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. He blew it up and it'll happen again. Maybe it's happening right now. I don't know. On Tuesday, the United States ...

Previous American presidents have used drones to assassinate suspected terrorists in places where they might prove impossible to arrest. By designating drug cartels as “terrorists”, Donald Trump is stretching this argument much further https://t.co/bvDDAXNKfHPhoto: Donald Trump/Truth Social ...

Tonight, the White House releasing this dramatic video of the US blowing up a boat in the southern Caribbean. President Trump says it was carrying drugs from Venezuela and that the strike killed 11 members of the notorious gang Trenagua or TDA. >> We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country coming in for a long time and we just uh these came out of Venezuela.We took it out. Last month, the Pentagon deployed three guided missile destroyers to international waters near Venezuela after President Trump desi ...

Drug Trafficking & National Security - The US government is addressing the influx of drugs into the country, particularly from Venezuela [1] - The administration aims to combat drug cartels and drug trafficking to stabilize the US and the Caribbean basin [1] - The drugs are potentially headed to Trinidad or other Caribbean countries, contributing to regional instability [2] - The US government intends to use its full power to eradicate drug cartels, ending their impunity [2]

The naval force sent to the southern Caribbean will reinforce the pressure on drug cartels and a belligerent Venezuelan regime that benefits from them, says @stavridisj (via @opinion) https://t.co/Uf1zfCAZdY ...