
The Pentagon is using drones to monitor drug smuggling routes in Latin America and is involved in ground raids with local security forces, including an operation in Ecuador involving about 50 US military and law enforcement officers, while considering ground strikes to create "total system friction" against the cartels.
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The Pentagon is increasing military involvement in operations against drug cartels in Latin America, using high-tech drones for surveillance and coordinating ground raids with local forces.
The Pentagon is using drones to monitor drug smuggling routes in Latin America.
The US military is participating in raids with local security forces in Latin America.
About 50 US military and law enforcement officers took part in raids against an alleged cocaine smuggling network in Ecuador.
MOSCOW, September 30 - RIA Novosti. The Pentagon is using drones to monitor drug smuggling routes in Latin America, and the US military is participating in raids with local security forces, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Pentagon is dramatically expanding the Army's role in tracking drug cartels across Latin America and the Caribbean, deploying high-tech drones to map smuggling networks and sending U.S. troops on ground raids.
The head of US Southern Command, General Francis Donovan, said in an interview with the newspaper that he was considering ground strikes as an option, noting that the Pentagon would like to see all options considered. According to him, these could be strikes, detentions, seizure of safe houses, the use of cargo scanners at border checkpoints - all this to create “total systemic friction” against the cartels.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The Pentagon will continue to expand the use of drones and ground forces in operations against drug cartels in Latin America
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