Trump threatens ground operations against cartels in Mexico

President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will soon begin actions to target cartels on land, following the operation to capture Venezuela’s leader to face drug trafficking charges and months of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, CNN writes.

“We’ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water, and we are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels,” Trump said on Fox News.

“The cartels are running Mexico,” he added. “It’s very, very sad to watch and see what’s happened to that country.”

The US president offered no further details.

Trump earlier this week said he had asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wanted the US military’s help in rooting out drug cartels, warning that “Mexico has to get their act together.”

Sheinbaum has remained opposed to the effort, telling reporters Monday after the US operation in Venezuela: “We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.”