In the long struggle between nations and the shadow economies that undermine them, the United States has again chosen the language of force — destroying a vessel in Latin American waters and killing three people in the name of narcotics suppression. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, touring the region most shaped by these decisions, has cast drug cartels not as criminals to be prosecuted but as a cancer to be excised, a metaphor that reveals how thoroughly the administration has moved drug enforcement into the architecture of war. The designation of 21 Latin American organizations as foreign ter
U.S. Destroys Drug Boat as Rubio Defends Strikes Against Cartels
Three people were killed in the latest boat strike.