A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to another wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson).
The United States has ordered the deployment of air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, Reuters reported on August 14, citing two sources briefed on the decision.
“This deployment is aimed at addressing threats to U.S. national security from specially designated narco-terrorist organizations in the region,” one of the sources said.
The administration of President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to crackdown on drug cartels. Last February, it designated Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and other drug gangs as well as Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua as global terrorist organizations.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the administration was considering the idea of using the military to go after the designated cartels.
On August 7, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio openly stated that the administration could use the military to go after cartels.
“It allows us to now target what they’re operating and to use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever… to target these groups if we have an opportunity to do it,” Rubio said. “We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug dealing organizations.”
A Reuters report released the very next day revealed that the Pentagon was ordered by the administration to prepare options.
Another report by The New York Times from August 8 alleged that Trump had secretly signed a directive to begin using military force against the groups.
On the very same day, the U.S. announced that it had doubled the reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from to $50 million.
The Trump administration has accused Maduro, a long time opponent of the U.S., of being the world’s biggest drug trafficker and of working with cartels to smuggle fentanyl-laced cocaine. No evidence backing these accusations was presented, however.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said that the new reward was “pathetic” and went on to label it “political propaganda”.
The situation in Mexico is different, however. Under the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican government vowed to ramp up efforts to disrupt drug flows into the U.S., showing more willingness to comply with demands from Trump to avoid tariffs threatened by his administration.
On August 12, the U.S. took custody of 26 alleged cartel members who were expelled by Mexico under a deal with the Trump administration.
The Justice Department said in a statement that the individuals are facing a range of federal and state criminal charges from around the country, including drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder, and money laundering.
“These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores — under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi, thanking Mexico’s National Security team for their collaboration.
Reuter’s latest report came as an MQ-9 Guardian drone operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was spotted flying deep into Mexico.
The drone reportedly took off from an air base in the state of Texas and flew more than 1,200 kilometers south, including about 900 kilometers deep into Mexican airspace, according to data provided by FlightRadar24. The drone conducted several orbits in an area in the southern state of Mexico, where several cartels are known to be active.
The head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, later said that the drone was operating at the behest of the Mexican government.
The U.S. military could deal a major blow to drug cartels. However, the excessive use of force could have serious repercussions.
Cartels in Mexico are well-armed and have extensive influence within the criminal circles in the U.S. These factors along with the fact that the use of deadly force by the U.S. against Mexican citizens will be perceived by many in the country as an aggression could lead to a cross-border conflict, or even worse.
The situation with Venezuela is even more complicated for the U.S. military due to the state of hostility between the two countries. In fact, the U.S. appears to be using the war on drugs as a means to pressure the government there and intervene in the country. This won’t be easy, however, as the Venezuelan military is heavily-armed.
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… and it’s obvious that this “again” is “not” what it appears to be. just like the taliban’s removal of the opium in afghanistan prior to 9/11 that led to the u.$. army’s black ops for langley’s restoration thereafter post invasion, that now includes child trafficking and involuntary organ donations. “ain’t that america”!… “somethin to see baby”… “home of the freee-ak!… little pink houses in mena arkansas “for you and me”!…
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you realise what the word censorship means right? could you provide us with examples of said censorship?
no. all the examples would be censored out by the censorship queens of southcensorship.
i would if my comment didn’t just get censored, shitfront is really just a russian propaganda mouthpiece in particular for the last one or two years, their bias is so extreme its almost no point of even reading any of their articles.
watch this! fuck putin, fuck trump, fuck xinping, fuck khomeni, fuck macron, fuck merz, fuck starmer, fuck the jews, fuck the arabs, fuck the christians, fuck the buddhists, fuck the hindus.
see no censorship
it’s funny because my comment just got censored!
remember we are talking about the great and mighty united states of america here and not the puny, incompetent ragtag russian army here. we can and we will go after the drug cartels in latin america and easily kill them regardless of high armed they may be. we will dismantle them and slaughter them on par with how the i.d.f. is doing to the palestinians.
the drugs will end up in america
and canada… and latin america… and eu…. and eastern europe… and australia…
because the cia controls the global drug trade.
china or india should throw atomic bombs at uyghur terrorists.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/367803/
or at least that the treacherous alavites, who signed reconciliation with hts terrorists. their mountains should change from green to white. with the help of erosion and avalanches, all the fertile mountains should turn into bare stones
ussa and israel are at war with the whole globe. nobody in history has pissed off so many nations in such little time. it shows what morons these people are. when you turn the world against you, you can only blame yourself. the zionists are like an asshole drunk getting kicked out of all the town bars. maybe the problem is the drunk not the bars
how about europe, eurofag?
oh, that’s right, you can’t even defend your own young girls from muslim gang rape…lol
i am not a europussy
no the whole world is against russia and not us! and all of our enemies are being pulverized and grinded into dust like hamas, and hezbollah. even the iranians are terrified of us, and of course the pathetic russians are being ass raped by our ukrainian allies. if putin was so brave he would have shot down incoming nato resupply planes and reconissance planes. nor allowed russian property to be seized or stolen from overseas, plus the myriad of other things we have done to them!
that’s the problem. halfwits and retards always take restraint for weakness. that’s the way we end up with a dead irradiated planet. the jewsa has succeeded in a remarkably short space of time in earning the hatred and contempt of the whole world through its corruption, arrogance, ignorance, stupidity and brutality. not just its major adversaries, russia, china, india (the 1st, 3rd and 4th largest economies) and all their allies and partners, energy giants
like iran and venezuela, but even its formerly most servile vassals, canada, mexico, lapan, s.korea, jewu. the list is ever expanding and will soon embrace the entire planet. the jewsa is fast becoming an international leper. without even considering the revulsion of the entire world over the zionist genocide.
buen artículo 👍🏾
that the alawites will see the syrian reconciliation when there is no more mountains green and full of sheep. but it will be white and there will be no other than stones on it. https://www.syriahr.com/en/367840/
the fires that hts undertaking will take care of everything. https://www.syriahr.com/en/367840/ they have signed syrian reconciliation and syrian reconciliation involves erosion and landslides. so bare stones and no sheep more.
“the u.$. is gonna sell it'”$” debt to the despots of the world by using stable coin so the drug dealers can own the whole country. this is the genius act. laughable group.”….
they already do
the cartels are mean hombres – chumpo, yet again, is biting off more than he can chew. if he’s worried about drugs, he needs to look at the (((sackler family))) and their kind.
i’d like trump to explain how me now paying 15% more for french champagne has reduced the flow of fentanyl into the county. his emergency use authorization of tariffs was supposed to stop the drugs. the tariffs were a stealth tax on americans because the country is bankrupt and no one will buy our treasury debt. that’s why congress hasn’t called bullshit on the tariffs yet because they need the cash.
so…. usa is sending reapers against drug cartels that have been buying stinger manpads from ukraine that ukraine got from …usa????
the cia drug mafia erases competition regularly. and is seeking soldiers for war in europe against russia .
more jewing up! trump imports mexican cartel shotcallers and kingpins instead of fighting them:
look up ‘sinaloa cartel enter us trump’
ussans living high on the hog in mexico and anywhere else south of $lumville can kiss goodbye to home office good life on the cheap when the alternate non chosen drug capo$ start offing gringos en masse in their tropical paradise. everything has its price….. ask the idf ers
southfront has been taken by the pentagon as putin flies to alaska to appease the orange man! lmao! “nationalists”? make me laugh fucking liberals!
opium production in afghanistan decayed one year…i repeat, one year… and even with heavy us presence their resumed the production: yes, the “defeated” taliban… war on drugs and war on terror aren´t made for “us victories” but for the control of us population, latin america population (american “backyard”) and mena population (oil and gas)
waiting for the almighty american invasion of brazil, venezuela, bolivia, peru, colombia, el salvador, honduras, guatemala, ecuador and mexico of course! the american mic/pentagon or drug cartels overlords? who loves more money? may they kill each other in peace! lmao!
the us deep state and world financial institutions are themselves involved in the drug trade. when the us says it is going after drug trafficking you can be sure it has a hidden agenda.
win-win ! both drug trafficking, and military-industrial surge ! plus sadistic ss running amok in the cities. out with the blonds ! or was it the jews ? mine the atlantic !
yankee go home!