{"id":2202,"date":"2026-03-19T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:32:18","slug":"trump-issues-covert-directive-heres-who-might-be-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"Trump Issues Covert Directive \u2014 Here\u2019s Who Might Be at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/653709067_122283571388238462_5668096963897415341_n_cleanup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/653709067_122283571388238462_5668096963897415341_n_cleanup.png 720w, https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/653709067_122283571388238462_5668096963897415341_n_cleanup-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports say President\u202fDonald\u202fTrump\u2019s administration has designated multiple Latin American drug cartels as <strong>foreign terrorist organizations<\/strong>, a major shift in U.S. policy toward transnational criminal groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move gives U.S. agencies broader legal tools to pursue these groups, including increased military surveillance and intelligence operations targeting cartel networks that traffic drugs like fentanyl into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, officials from the Pentagon have clarified that <strong>designating cartels as terrorist groups does not automatically authorize drone strikes or other direct military attacks<\/strong> on them. U.S. military authority to conduct strikes would still be limited under existing law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy has sparked debate both domestically and internationally, with some critics saying the legal basis for military action is unclear and may raise sovereignty concerns with neighboring countries whose own governments oppose foreign intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short: the U.S. has expanded its anti\u2011cartel strategy by classifying certain criminal organizations as terrorist groups and increasing military involvement on the border and at sea\u2014but <strong>current law still restricts how and where U.S. forces can be used against them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say President\u202fDonald\u202fTrump\u2019s administration has designated multiple Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a major shift in U.S. policy toward transnational criminal groups. The move&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}