Officials are praising an inter-agency taskforce, including the United States Coast Guard and led by the U.S. Southern Command, in their efforts to disrupt the illicit flow of drugs.

Joint Inter-Agency Task Force South officials said it was a banner year for cocaine seizures, with a haul that represents 378 million lethal doses, or enough cocaine to kill every American.

“We’re not going to have a cartel, operating or masquerading as a government, operating in our own hemisphere,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a recent interview.

The effort targets smugglers moving drugs through waters between South and Central America and the Caribbean.

Authorities say they intercepted the equivalent of 42 dump trucks, 16 shipping containers or four football fields, denying cartels more than $

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