Shield of the Americas Coalition Imposes Sanctions on 24 Criminal Groups
The coalition said it will freeze assets, restrict visas and pursue criminal liability for members and supporters of 24 criminal organizations.
- On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, having arrived Monday night to coordinate strategies before the U.S.-China summit scheduled for Thursday.
- Tokyo officials seek to prevent Taiwan from becoming a bargaining chip in U.S.-China negotiations, viewing the island's stability as inseparable from Japan's own strategic environment and regional security.
- Japan leverages a $550 billion investment commitment in the United States to secure critical supply chains, while seeking to prevent China's dual-use export restrictions from fragmenting the U.S. technology-control regime.
- President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on Thursday, two days after the Takaichi-Trump talks, as Tokyo works to narrow the space for a 'grand bargain' at its expense.
- Expanding its regional security footprint, Japan has increased its Official Security Assistance budget to 18.1 billion yen, deepening cooperation with Australia and Indonesia to strengthen deterrence across the Indo-Pacific.
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U.S. President Donald Trump called the countries of the Washington-led Coalition of Americas Shields in Latin America.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said yesterday that “for years the cartels waged a war against the peoples” of the West, defending their offensive against drug trafficking organizations in a meeting with leaders and foreign ministers from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries who have joined their Shield of the Americas.
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Times of India‘We’re waging war’: Trump urges ‘Shield of the Americas’ to declare ‘narco-terrorists’ common threat
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 22) asked all members of the Shield of the Americas to formally designate cartels as "common threats to stability" and apply sanctions. The shield is an anti-cartel coalition launched by the Trump administration.
US President Donald Trump has called on the countries of the Shield of the Americas alliance to impose sanctions on 24 drug cartels operating in the Americas. The call was made at a summit of leaders of the alliance on the sidelines of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2026. Trump said: “Today I call on all countries of the Americas to officially declare narco-terrorists a common threat to sta…
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