Under President Donald Trump, the drug war is looking a lot like the war on terror. To support strikes against Latin American gangs and drug cartels, the Trump administration is relying on a legal argument that gained traction after the Sept.

President Donald Trump has launched military strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean, threatening to blow narco-terrorists out of existence.

U.S. anti-drug policy in Latin America needs to change if Washington is to effectively combat a problem worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, a U.S. congressional commission will say in a bipartisan report coming out this week.

America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug gangs. Since August it has moved assets to the Caribbean (see chart). A naval flotilla now sits off the coast of Venezuela,

President Donald Trump said his administration are weighing land tactics in Latin America, following at least five fatal strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

A military-centric approach like the recent strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats has never worked, writes Daniel DePetris.

Officials sent notice to Congress labeling alleged traffickers ‘nonstate armed’ combatants in bid for legal justification for extrajudicial killings

Elizabeth Shackelford Other than frustration at surging migration, Latin America has not merited the same level of attention in Washington as the Middle East, Europe, or Asia in recent history. That indifference has ended with the second Trump administration,

COMMENTARY It's understandable to label today's drug cartels as terrorists — but that still doesn't make U.S. military attacks on them, like last week's in the Caribbean, justifiable under international law. A chorus of legal and military experts are ...

President Donald Trump, just nine months into office, has all but fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the war on drugs to the cartels’ doorstep.

The United States has bombed six ships near Venezuela President Donald Trump greenlit the CIA to operate inside the country. Why is this happening?