President Trump creates new anti-cartel coalition

On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed the heads of a dozen Latin American states to his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida for the inaugural summit of “Shield of the Americas,” announcing a new Americas Counter Cartel Coalition for combating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere. This comes after the State Department began designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations a year ago, and with U.S. Southern Command announcing recently that it will train and mobilize the militaries of partner nations to help dismantle them.