The United States ordered air and naval forces to deploy in the south of the Caribbean Sea to address the threats of Latin American drug cartels, Reuters informed “two informed sources”.
According to the agency’s office, both sources had few details of the operation, but President Trump wanted to use the military forces to persecute bands of Latin American drug traffickers, designated global terrorist organizations by the State Department.
Trump has made the repression of drug cartels a central objective of its policy, part of a broader effort to limit migration and control the southern border of the United States.
The sources that spoke with Reuters from anonymity, said the Department of Defense has begun to order the deployment of air and naval forces in the south of the Caribbean Sea.
“This deployment aims to address the threats to the national security of the United States from narco -terrorist organizations specially designated in the region,” said one of the sources.
In February, the US government appointed the Sinaloa Cartel of Mexico and other groups of drug traffickers, as well as the Venezuelan Criminal Group Train of Aragua, global terrorist organizations while Trump intensified the application of migratory measures against alleged gang members.
The US army has already increased its air vigels of Mexican drug cartels to collect intelligence and determine the best way to counteract their activities.
Trump previously offered US troops to Mexico to combat drug trafficking, an offer that Mexico claims to have rejected.
United cartels
The State Department Office for International Narcotics Affairs and application of the United States Law offered millionaire rewards for information that leads to drug traffickers associated with the Mexican criminal group Cartels Unidos.
This organization began as a smaller cartel alliance in Michoacán, with the aim of preventing the entry of larger cartels and criminal organizations such as the Knights Templar, and more recently, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) ..
The reward is authorized by virtue of the Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP, in English), which supports efforts to dismantle transnational crime worldwide and bring fugitives to US justice,
