By R. Cort Kirkwood
President Trump has ordered the military to use force against the drug cartels that he designated as terrorist organizations on his first day in office.
The New York Times reported the development this morning, a day after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro — also kingpin of the Cartel los Soles cartel — has doubled to $50 million dollars.
Attacking the cartels was one of Trump’s key campaign promises. Border Czar Tom Homan said Trump would destroy them…
On July 25, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the Cartel los Soles as a “specially designated” terrorist organization.
It has “provided material support to Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel,” the department said. TdA and Sinaloa on the list of terrorist organizations the State Department released in February, pursuant to Trump’s executive order.
“Tren de Aragua is a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that originated in Venezuela and is involved in the illicit drug trade, human smuggling and trafficking, extortion, sexual exploitation of women and children, and money laundering, among other criminal activities,” the department said
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