Trump overseeing ‘golden age’ of war on drugs

President Donald Trump, just nine months into office, has all but fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the war on drugs to the cartels’ doorstep.

The president’s recent strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, coupled with his widespread efforts to secure the southern and northern borders and deport illegal immigrants, have yielded major progress on stemming the flow of narcotics into the United States, according to senior Trump administration aides and former Drug Enforcement Administration officials.

And though Trump has yet to authorize special forces operations against Mexican cartels on their home soil, something he repeatedly proposed throughout the 2024 campaign cycle, he has reviewed plans to strike at gangs, including Tren de Aragua, inside Venezuela, which the Trump administration has begun to fashion

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