It was on Wednesday that both the President and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced that the US had launched a military action against drug cartels.
- Corrupt actors, such as the illegitimate Madura regime, rely on drug trafficking revenues to maintain their grip on power. The Venezuelan people are suffering tremendously under Maduro's criminal control of the country, the defense minister said, Reuters news agency writes.
"Drug cartels exploit corona pandemic"Donald Trump warned that the ongoing corona pandemic will open up the drug trade and that it is something that the United States will not let happen.
"These expanded forces will almost double our capacity to fight drug trafficking in the region," Trump said.
The effort is the largest in the region since 1989, writes AP.
"In war against the cartels"The head of the US Department of Defense Pentagon also took strong words.
- We are at war against terrorists, we are at war against covid-19, we are at war against the cartels. This is the United States military, you will not enter this country, "Pentagon Defense Secretary Mark Milley said.