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Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy makes targeting Western Hemisphere cartels the top priority
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Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy makes targeting Western Hemisphere cartels the top priority

The Seattle Times·Aamer Madhani The Associated Press·26 days ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday. The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the top U.S. focus. “We will not let cartels, Jihadists, or the governments who support them plot against our citizens with impunity. Terrorists of any kind will not be allowed to find safe harbor here at home or attack us from abroad,” Trump wrote in the 16-page document. Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to reshape the region with the ouster of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s president, dozens of U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats operated by cartels and new pressure on the communist government of Cuba.…

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