US President Donald Trump has announced a major escalation in America’s campaign against drug trafficking in Latin America, signalling that land strikes will begin soon. Speaking at the White House on Friday, December 12, Trump said operations that have so far focused on the sea would now move onshore.

“We’ll start that on land too. It’s going to be starting on land pretty soon," he told reporters, without giving details on locations or timing.

Since September, the US military has carried out 21 naval strikes against what it described as drug-smuggling boats in international waters off South America. According to Trump, these actions killed 83 people and sharply reduced the flow of drugs by sea.

“We knocked out 96 per cent of the drugs coming in by water," Trump said. “Now we’re startin

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