Trump adopts an unprecedented approach against cartels with military strikes

The unprecedented strikes of the US Marines on a ship operated at the Venezuela cartel have pointed out that the Trump administration adopts a new approach when it comes to countering international drug trade.

While the US military worked for a long time to counter the organizations of cartel and international gangs from the late 1980s, Tuesday’s strike that killed 11 members of Tren of Aragua – which the Trump administration designated as a terrorist organization in February – marked a final change in previous seizure and seizure operations.

“Gloves are disabled,” Fox News Digital, Isaias Medina, former UN Venezuelan diplomat, in the ten digital news, told Fox News. “The recent American marine strike on the so-called Nargua Narcua Narcua Narcua ship operated under a regime deeply linked to crimes against humanity and narco-terrorism marked a turning point in the fight against international organized crime.”

The video sequences showed the ship shortly before being destroyed from Venezuela on September 2, 2025. (@Realdonaldtrump via social social)

Maduro claims that the United States was looking for a “regime change by military threat” in the middle of the Caribbean accumulation

President Donald Trump has clearly indicated since his first administration that he firmly opposes the Maduro regime and even announced a reward of $ 50 million for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

Trump’s decision to deploy American troops of the South American nation prompted Maduro on Monday to denounce this decision as an attempt to change regime and said: “Venezuela is faced with the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the past 100 years.”

The White House was faced with certain international declines and questions concerning what this strike meant for the future American policy in the fight against cartels and geopolitics in South America.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, sought to set the record straight during a Wednesday trip to Mexico – where he was also addressed to cross -border weapons and the smuggling of narcotic drugs – and said: “The President of the United States will go to war on narco -terrorist organizations.”

Rubio argued the previous policy to grasp and understand “does not work”.

“Because these drug cartels – what they are doing is that they know that they will lose 2% of their cargo – they do it in their economy,” he said. “What will stop them is when you explode them, when you get rid of them.”

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Oval Blanche Office on September 2, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

American warships to patrol international waters around Venezuela while Trump promises to stop cartels

Medina argued that Maduro’s “revolting or incapable” attitude towards the international Narcotic Narcotic Rings of Cartel opened the opportunity window to act, noting that strict rules of engagement have followed a terrorist organization that followed the drugs provided in the United States

“Tren of Aragua, Venezuela, supported by Maduro, operates a bit like other terrorist groups sponsored by the State, including the support of Iran to the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah destabilizing all regions by illicit trade and violence,” said Medina. “Safe ports in international waters are no longer sanctuaries for traffickers and smugglers.

“This strike sends a clear warning that these companies are now faced with a decisive and powerful resistance of American forces and their allies,” he added.

Despite Maduro’s suspicions that Trump’s end game is the eviction of his government, the experts remain skeptical.

The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro pronounces the annual address in Teatro Teresa Carreno in Caracas, Venezuela, January 15, 2025. (Images of Jesus Vargas / Getty))

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Although Tuesday’s operation is an extension of Trump’s anti-maduro policies, Juan Cruz, a former principal director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere Affairs, said that he did not think that major changes are on the horizon as a change of diet.

“I cannot imagine that this deployment had this specifically as a goal,” Cruz told Fox News Digital. “But (Trump) will certainly take this as a victory if, for any reason, it had this result.”