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The U.S. has ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rico airfield to conduct operations against drug cartels: Reuters

The U.S. Department of Defense officially announces that two Venezuelan military aircraft flew near a @USNavy ship in international waters. They describe the overflight as a provocative action.

Two-armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over a US warship today-a show of force, @JimLaPorta and @charliecbs report. The USS Jason Dunham is among a flotilla of U.S. ships dispatched to target criminal organizations and narco-terrorism.

Federal officers arrested two individuals in possession of heroin and fentanyl aboard a tractor-trailer in Huatabampo, Sonora.

Rubio says US designating two Ecuador gangs as terrorist groups

California: Three Mexicans Arrested and Nearly 350 kg of Methamphetamine Seized

Mexico and the U.S. strengthen bilateral cooperation in security and combating organized crime

"This could happen again." @SecRubio on the attack on a boat leaving Venezuela. "It's not that they're going to lose a cargo or two, it's that they're not going to continue acting with impunity. This (referring to the attack on the boat) could happen again, it could be happening."

Donald Trump (@POTUS) asserts that "Venezuela has been one of the worst actors in drug trafficking and crime." Maduro and his regime are responsible.

Marco Rubio in Mexico City defended Tuesday's military operation on alleged Venezuelan drug cartels, saying that previous U.S. interdiction efforts in Latin America have not worked. "What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them," Rubio said

US hits Chinese firm with sanctions over 'deadly scourge' of fentanyl crisis @USTreasury blacklists chemical company and its representatives as Trump admin blames China for poisoning American citizens. DoS Statement

The Dominican Republic designates Nicolás Maduro’s Cartel of the Suns as an international terrorist organization

Full video of the US drone strike on a drug trafficking vessel that reportedly departed from Venezuela earlier today

Trump: ״Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere. The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America”

Sec. Rubio says the Trump admin will "wage combat" against drug cartels flooding the U.S - CNN

A senior defense official says “We can confirm the U.S. military conducted a precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization. More information will be made available at a later time."

Marco Rubio reports that the U.S. Army fired on and destroyed a drug-laden ship from Venezuela operated by the Cartel of the Suns.

Syria: the Anti-Narcotics Department seized around 5,000 Captagon pills concealed in soap bars in Damascus. Drugs were intended to be smuggled into the UAE

The SSPC Morelos in conjunction with the military raided a house in the Lomas de Texcal neighborhood of Jiutepec, Morelos & seized weapons, explosives & a drone.The drone is an unknown model/model FPV drone. The drone is set up to drop munitions with a simple DIY servo attachment

Secretary Marco Rubio: "For the first time in the modern era, we are truly on the offensive against the organized cartels that are flooding our cities with poison—deadly poison."

The Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations denounces the escalation of hostile actions and threats by the United States, which now include the deployment of additional warships to the Caribbean, including the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie and the nuclear-powered submarine USS Newport News. According to the statement from the permanent mission to the UN, Caracas calls for the "preservation of peace, security, and stability" in the region.

Secretary Marco Rubio: The US is building an "international coalition" to combat drug cartels. "We are truly on the offensive against the organized cartels that are flooding our cities with poison, deadly poison."

"For the first time, we are truly on the offensive against cartels," says @SecRubio, without directly mentioning the Cartel of the Suns, but adds, "We are receiving incredible international cooperation in the last week: Ecuador, Paraguay, Guyana, Trinidad, and today Argentina."

A Colombian intelligence report revealed by @RevistaSemana confirms the existence of the Cartel of the Suns and says the group "provides protection and logistics for the export of cocaine, weapons, illegal gold, and fuel to the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe."

Diosdado Cabello reports results in the fight against drug gangs: 52,769 kg of drugs seized, 153,000 kg of precursors, 6,284 arrests, 400 aircraft, and 92 runways neutralized. He accuses María Corina Machado of colluding with militants and asserts that the DEA is "the largest cartel in the world."

Maduro announces a new "massive enlistment campaign" for Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th.

Diosdado Cabello accuses the DEA of being "the largest drug cartel in the world." "It controls the drugs that go to the US here (in Venezuela) if we combat drugs, not occasionally. Here we combat drugs at their roots," he stated.

"Chalamán," a relative of "El Mencho" and alleged member of the CJNG, was arrested in Colima.

France also announces mobilization of resources in the Caribbean to "confront" drug cartels.

In Baalbek, the army launches a raid campaign and destroys dunams of cannabis.