The Trump administration is now escalating its fight against drug cartels. The Pentagon carried out yet another deadly strike on what Defense Secretary Pete Hexith says was a boat carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela without providing any evidence. Hexath said the strike, which happened yesterday, killed four people.It is the fourth known US attack against what the Trump administration says are narco terrorists smuggling drugs. But the moves are also raising major red flags to some who say the Trump ad ...

President Trump said the US is ready to strike drug cartels on land and at sea after he said it struck a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela."It's spattered all over the ocean, big bags of cocaine and fentanyl all over the place," he said Monday https://t.co/P1uwnU5cAd https://t.co/VObTw7Dxnr ...

Donald Trump has designated drug cartels as “terrorists”. This is dubious: unlike al-Qaeda or Islamic State, cartels kill people in pursuit of a commercial goal (selling drugs), not a political one. But polls suggest that American voters are happy to use the label for drug gangs https://t.co/AaS0bcnUXC ...