Trump Says He May Go to Congress to Strike Drug Cartels on Land

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is preparing attacks against drug traffickers who operate by land, after his forces first attacked an alleged narco-lancha in the Pacific, killing two people. Drug trafficking by sea is shrinking, Trump told reporters in the White House, and now he will take care of those who cross by land, he threatened, without giving any more geographical details. “We will hit them very hard when they come by…

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For weeks, the United States has repeatedly attacked boats of suspected drug smugglers off the coast of Latin America. President Trump does not consider it necessary to give Parliament permission.

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Declaration comes after the scale of American attacks against ships in the Caribbean and the Pacific

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DOBLE LLAVE – U.S. President Donald Trump said that if he decides to take his operations against drug trafficking to the ground he will notify Congress because it is a problem of "national security," after having destroyed a new boat in the Pacific. "If we don't, hundreds of thousands of people will enter by land, because they no longer come by boat," Trump said when questioned about his military actions near the Venezuelan coast. The president …