President Donald Trump made history again on
Thursday with a declaration of war
against North and South American drug cartels,
escalating a conflict that until
now has taken place beneath the surface of
intercontinental diplomacy
and remained within
anti-trafficking frameworks.
In a brief memo sent to Congress,
the White House laid out
its reasoning for declaring
a “non-international armed conflict”
with drug cartels,
which the administration
referred to throughout the
document as “terrorist organizations.”
