We're here to announce a landmark victory for the Department of Justice, our law enforcement partners, and the United States of America. As you've heard, drug kingpan pen Ishmail Zambada Garcia, also known as Elmo, has confessed to a lifetime of crime in service to the Sinaloa cartel, a foreign terrorist organization. Thanks to the relentless work of our prosecutors and our federal agents, Elmyo will spend the rest of his life behind bars.His guilty plea brings us one step closer to achieving our goal of el ...

Tonight, the Trump administration is cracking down on drug cartels at sea. A source briefed on the matter tells NBC News the US is planning to deploy these three warships near Venezuela. President Trump focusing on drugs coming to the coasts after reducing illegal border crossings to record lows.>> They can continue to send drugs into our country. Venezuela, they've been very nasty. The Trump administration also recently doubling to $50 million its reward for the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, ...

The US will send three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to waters off Venezuela to address what Washington sees as the threat from drug cartels, Reuters reports https://t.co/fPb2SjZk7S ...

Mexico transferred 26 inmates with ties to organized crime to face charges in the US, in its latest push to work with Washington on combating powerful drug cartels https://t.co/CxIURDRHwY ...

Mexico rejects Trump's reported military plan against drug cartels https://t.co/nDyswkkqXV ...

News has confirmed a report in the New York Times today that Donald Trump quote secretly secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations. End quote. This predictably led to an outcry from the Mexican president Claudia Shinbomb who said, "The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate. We collaborate but there is not going to be an invasion.That is ...

The US under President Donald Trump is crafting a confrontational approach toward Latin America that signals a willingness to use military force against drug cartels https://t.co/ZfOfdLSi2G ...

Especially the narco cartels of Brazil https://t.co/7Tkb7x2GOrDepartment of State (@StateDept):.@SecRubio on designating drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: "We cannot continue to just treat these guys as local street gangs. They have weaponry that looks like what terrorists, in some cases armies, have. They control territory in many cases ... It’s no longer https://t.co/AyWgGWpAE7 ...

RT Department of State (@StateDept).@SecRubio on designating drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: "We cannot continue to just treat these guys as local street gangs. They have weaponry that looks like what terrorists, in some cases armies, have. They control territory in many cases ... It’s no longer a law enforcement issue. It becomes a national security issue." ...

Trump has directed the Pentagon to begin preparing options to use military force against Latin American drug cartels, the latest step in the administration’s campaign against the cartels https://t.co/7Cs0bUoOCs ...