President Donald Trump has secretly signed a directive authorizing the use of military force against some Latin American drug cartels, according to a Friday report from The New York Times.

“The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels,” says the report. “U.S. military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the groups, the people familiar with the conversations said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations.”

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