{"id":224118,"date":"2026-01-09T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=224118"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:59:09","slug":"trump-threatens-ground-operations-against-cartels-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/224118\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens ground operations against cartels in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will soon begin actions to target cartels on land, following the operation to capture Venezuela&rsquo;s leader to face drug trafficking charges and months of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/venezuela-oil-trump-01-08-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water, and we are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels,&rdquo; Trump said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The cartels are running Mexico,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very, very sad to watch and see what&rsquo;s happened to that country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The US president offered no further details.<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier this week said he had asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum if she wanted the US military&rsquo;s help in rooting out drug cartels, warning that &ldquo;Mexico has to get their act together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum has remained opposed to the effort, telling reporters Monday after the US operation in Venezuela: &ldquo;We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will soon begin actions to target cartels on land, following the operation to capture Venezuela&rsquo;s leader to face drug trafficking charges and months of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, CNN writes. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":224057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224119,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224118\/revisions\/224119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}