Trump has already declared the drug cartels terrorist organizations and ordered military strikes against suspected drug boats. Now he’s declaring fentanyl a WMD. Experts on street drugs and fentanyl are skeptical these moves will reduce the supply of fentanyl on America’s streets or reduce overdose deaths.
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Plea deal with son of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ details abduction of legendary Sinaloa capo
JoaquÃn Guzmán López, the 39-year-old son of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin JoaquÃn “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprise in federal court in Chicago.
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Trump says boat crews are narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP finds
In interviews in villages on Venezuela’s northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.
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Trump administration announces 16th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat
The attack Tuesday killed two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 66 people.
