#drug-trafficking-cartels

#drug-trafficking-cartels

Extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels that the United States has designated as terrorist organizations have wrought devastating consequences on American communities for decades, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of United States citizens each year and threatening our national security and foreign policy interests both at home and abroad...In the face of the inability or unwillingness of some states in the region [the Western Hemisphere] to address the continuing threat...