Tag: drug cartels
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US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, according to a U.S. official briefed on the planning. The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson are expected to…
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Trump promises to use the military to help enforce immigration laws, as he labels drug cartels ‘terrorists’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump on Monday promised to crack down on illegal immigration using the military, reinstate troops discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine and classify drug cartels as terrorist groups. While classifying groups as terrorists likely summons images of the decades of conflict in Iraq…
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Ex-Honduran president defends himself at New York drug trafficking trial
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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes
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Catholic bishops in Mexico say they negotiated for possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders
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A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord in the violent southern state of Guerrero
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Mexican police arrest members of drug gang behind the alleged killing of 8 people in Cancun
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Prosecutors have arrested six members of a drug gang in the Mexican resort of Cancun that allegedly killed and hacked up five people with a machete and dumped three other victims in a shallow grave