The United Staters is putting a real squeeze on the drug cartels from much of Latin America – that includes Venezuela which is on the cross hairs of President Donald Trump, but also to a certain extent much of the Caribbean countries like Colombia and also Mexico and much of the east and west pacific.
Drug cartels in those parts of the world are under a squeeze.
And their operatives are being shot at on a daily basis, with the United States military currently amassing within a striking distance of much of those countries.
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