What to Know About Venezuela’s Drug Trafficking Threat to US

U.S. forces in the Caribbean killed 11 suspected members of the Tren de Aragua narcotics cartel on Sept. 2, when they fired on a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump added the Venezuela-based group to a list of cartels and organized criminal networks that his administration designated as “foreign terrorist organizations.”