US EditionMarco Rubio Defends the Designation of Cartels as Terrorists: ‘They Are Not Simple Gangs’
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The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, justified the designation of six drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, due to their weapons capabilities and territorial control. During an interview at EWTN, Rubio said that criminal organizations cannot be treated as street gangs, since their operations tend to cross borders and present a high level of coordination. “We cannot continue to treat these guys as local street gangs. They have wea…
The criminal organizations in Mexico have left a trail of death. Only in the six-year period of Andrés Manuel López Obrador have nearly 200,000 people died and there are more than 22,000 people in Claudia Sheinbaum’s government. Six Mexican cartels have been targeted by the United States. They have been on the list of global terrorist organizations since last February. What Mexican cartels are targeted by the United States? Sinaloa Cartel, which…
One day before the U.S. President Donald Trump's secret order was released to the Pentagon to use military force against drug cartels in the region, on August 8, Secretary of State Marco Rubio referred to the scope of these organizations, including their presence in Ecuador.
The current U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, revived the debate on border security policy by proposing that Mexican cartels be officially classified as foreign terrorist organizations. The statement, made on August 8, raises an unprecedented hardening in the way the U.S. government would face these [...]
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