The Central Intelligence Agency is poised to take a larger, more aggressive role under President Donald Trump in the battle against Mexican-based drug cartels, devising and evaluating plans to share more intelligence with regional governments, train local counternarcotics units and possibly conduct other covert actions, according to people familiar with the matter.
The expanded focus on cartels, which smuggle fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States, represents a new and potentially risky priority for the spy agency, which in recent years has made espionage against China, counterterrorism operations in the Middle East and Africa, and support for Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion its main concerns.
WAPO is worried this will upset the Cartels.
#BREAKING: The Mexican Senate has just APPROVED the entry of U.S. Special Forces to take on the cartels
FINALLY!
Trump has designated the cartels as “foreign terrorıst organizations” and they’re about to PAY for the American lives they’ve taken pic.twitter.com/f3J2MmN1Lf
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 17, 2025
