Trump to tackles the drug cartels

 Newsmax:

President Donald Trump is considering options for carrying out military strikes targeting drug cartels inside Venezuela, CNN reported Friday, citing multiple sources.

Bombing inside Venezuela would mark a dramatic escalation in U.S. tensions with the South American country.

Earlier in the week, the U.S. military struck a boat from Venezuela in the southern Caribbean, leaving 11 people dead, because, according to Trump, the vessel was transporting illegal narcotics.

The strike was just the beginning of a much larger effort to rid the region of narcotics trafficking and potentially dislodge Venezuela's leftist president, Nicolas Maduro, from power, CNN reported.

Neither the White House nor the Venezuelan communications ministry responded to separate requests for comment from Reuters.

Asked on Friday if the U.S. was eyeing a regime change in Venezuela, Trump told reporters: "We're not talking about that, but we are talking about the fact that you had an election which was a very strange election, to put it mildly."
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The world would be better off if the drug cartels were put out of business. If Maduro is facilitating the drug cartels, he is likely to become a target.  Venezuela is a country with a lot of potential that is being wasted at this point by the drug trade. 

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