President Donald Trump announced in an interview aired Jan. 8 that the United States would begin launching strikes on cartels in Mexico.
“We knocked out 97 percent of the drugs coming in by water, and we are going to start now hitting land with regard with the cartels,” Trump told Sean Hannity from Fox News.
“The cartels are running Mexico. It’s very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country.
“They’re killing 250,000, 300,000 in our country every single year.”
The announcement comes just five days after Trump ordered an operation to capture and remove Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to the United States to face criminal charges, including narco-terrorism.