Trump deploys U.S. forces to Southern Caribbean to target narco-terrorist cartels

President Donald Trump has officially launched a major military campaign in the Southern Caribbean, directing U.S. air and naval forces to take on the violent Latin American drug cartels fueling America’s drug crisis.

According to senior defense sources, the Pentagon has begun deploying troops to the region following Trump’s classified order last week. The mission eliminate the threats posed by specially designated narco-terrorist organizations operating in Central and South America many of which are directly responsible for flooding U.S. communities with deadly drugs like fentanyl and cocaine.

“This is about protecting our homeland,” one senior official said. “The president has made it clear: these cartels are terrorist organizations, and we will treat them as such.”

While Mexico has been the traditional focal point of cartel violence, this deployment shifts military assets to the Southern Caribbean Sea, signaling a broader crackdown beyond the border.

Key targets of this new campaign include:

• Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang already designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

• Cartel de los Soles, another Venezuela-based network with deep state and military connections.

• Sinaloa Cartel, which U.S. authorities say is working with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the DEA has seized 30 tons of cocaine connected to Maduro’s regime, with seven tons directly linked to the dictator himself. Bondi added that Maduro’s regime has been using cartels as proxy armies to traffic drugs into the United States, an act she says constitutes "state-sponsored terrorism."

“These are not just drug dealers,” Bondi said. “These are terrorists who are targeting American families with poison.”

In a bold move, Trump also raised the bounty on Maduro to $50 million, doubling down on his effort to bring the Venezuelan despot to justice.

The operation is expected to include increased naval patrols, surveillance flights, and targeted intelligence-gathering missions throughout the Caribbean basin. This builds on Trump’s ongoing deployment of military resources along the southern border, where U.S. forces have helped intercept fentanyl shipments and deter cartel-backed smuggling rings.

Not everyone is thrilled.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, a socialist and close ally of Biden-era policies, tried to distance her country from the operation, declaring that U.S. troops would not be allowed inside Mexico. “It is not part of any agreement, far from it,” Sheinbaum said. But Washington wasn’t asking permission.

After years of cartel violence, murdered Americans, and record-breaking overdoses over 112,000 U.S. drug deaths in 2023 alone Trump has had enough.

Critics from the left are already labeling the move “imperialist” or “provocative,” but for millions of Americans watching cities collapse under drug-fueled chaos, this is exactly the kind of bold leadership the nation needs.

Trump is doing what Biden never had the courage or will to do fight the cartels like the terrorists they are, and secure our country using the full strength of the U.S. military.

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