{"id":499843,"date":"2026-02-10T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-promises-attacks-against-land-targets-that-the-u-s-links-to-drug-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:16:24","slug":"trump-promises-attacks-against-land-targets-that-the-u-s-links-to-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/trump-promises-attacks-against-land-targets-that-the-u-s-links-to-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promises attacks against land targets that the U.S. links to drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"The U.S. President, Donald Trump, reiterated this Tuesday that he plans to launch ground attacks against targets in Latin America and the Caribbean that his country links to drug trafficking.\n\n&#8220;If we attack them on land, they go to the boats. So we attack the boats first. Now there are no boats. <strong>Now we are going to attack them on land. We are going to attack them with great force on land<\/strong>&#8220;, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2021341849642790947?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> in a conversation with the press, in which he defended the effectiveness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/586387-estados-unidos-lanza-ataque-letal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombings<\/a> of his country&#8217;s Army against small boats in Caribbean waters and the Pacific Ocean, labeled without proof as &#8220;narco-boats&#8221;.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"Iran wants to reach an agreement\">Trump: Iran wants to reach an agreement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to his words, since Washington implemented its new policy, consisting of using military force to combat drug trafficking, the movement of drugs towards US territory &#8220;has decreased considerably&#8221; and the internal consumption of illicit substances has fallen &#8220;around 33 %&#8221;.\n\nIn a similar vein to what he did on January 24th, Trump&nbsp;<strong>refrained from offering specifics<\/strong>&nbsp;on which Latin American and Caribbean territories could be the target of a US attack, under the cover of anti-cartel operations. Then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/583787-trump-redadas-antidroga-cualquier-lugar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;it could be anywhere&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;in Central and South America, as well as Mexico and the Caribbean islands.\n\nIn this regard, the Mexican and Colombian authorities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/581350-sheinbaum-responder-anuncio-trump-atacar-tierra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have rejected<\/a>&nbsp;directly the possibility of a violation&nbsp;of the sovereignty of their nations under any argument and, instead, have advocated for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad-rt.com\/actualidad\/586357-colombia-eeuu-destruyen-narcosubmarino-toneladas-cocaina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cooperation<\/a>&nbsp;binational and regional to put a stop to the scourge.&nbsp;&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. President, Donald Trump, reiterated this Tuesday that he plans to launch ground attacks against targets in Latin America and the Caribbean that his country links to drug trafficking. &#8220;If we attack them on land, they go to the boats. So we attack the boats first. Now there are no boats. Now we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[15925],"class_list":["post-499843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-donald-trump"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-261Z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}