Colombia security forces kill 5 members of top cocaine cartel days before country’s president meets with Trump

Colombia security forces kill 5 members of top cocaine cartel days before country’s president meets with Trump

Colombian security forces killed five members of the country’s largest drug cartel, including a regional kingpin, the government said Wednesday ahead of a meeting in Washington between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump. The U.S. leader is set to host his leftist sparring rival Petro at the White House next Tuesday for talks on combatting…

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U.S. to designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization as USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean

U.S. to designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization as USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean

The U.S. is set to designate Cartel de los Soles — a group that the Trump administration has claimed is headed by Venezuela’s president — as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday night, hours after the most advanced aircraft carrier in the nation crossed into the Caribbean Sea, the U.S….

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