President Trump secretly signed a directive approving the Pentagon’s use of military force on foreign soil to target Latin American drug cartels, according to a New York Times report. The order gives the Pentagon authority to direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels designated by the Trump administration to be terrorist organizations. “I think it’s directed mostly in Venezuela,” says Alexander Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. The U.S. “has used the war on drugs as another way to advance the U.S. imperial geopolitical designs in the Western Hemisphere.”
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