THE LATEST | CANADATime: President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to announce imminent land strikes on drug cartels in what would mark a further escalation of his campaign against alleged narco-terrorists across Latin America, following months of strikes against alleged drug boats at sea and just days after a U.S. military operation inside Venezuela that led to the arrest of its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
“We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels,” Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday night. “The cartels are running Mexico—it’s very, very sad to watch, and see what’s happened to that country.”..