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Investing.com -- The Trump administration plans to use military force against drug cartels that were designated as global terrorist organizations in February, U.S. officials confirmed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the designation allows the administration to target cartel operations using "other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever... to target these groups if we have an opportunity to do it."
"We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug dealing organizations," Rubio added.
The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported on Friday that President Donald Trump had secretly signed a directive to begin using military force against these groups, which include Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to Reuters, a U.S. official, speaking anonymously, confirmed this directive but indicated that military action against the designated groups did not appear imminent. The official said it remained unclear exactly what type of operations would be carried out.
A second U.S. official explained that the authority would give the U.S. Navy power to carry out actions at sea, potentially including drug interdiction operations.
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