President Trump has taken the war on drugs to the next level. More than 15 kinetic strikes, 64 drug traffickers killed, 16 boats destroyed and the largest naval deployment since Operation Just Cause, which ousted Panamanian narco-dictator Manuel Noriega. The threat of powerful drug cartels requires a powerful and unprecedented response.

In an interview with LiveNOW Digital Journalist Christy Matino, Congressional representative (R-FL) Carlos Gimenez says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is a threat to the safety of the United States.

WASHINGTON >> The United States today formally designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, layering additional terrorism-related sanctions on the group it has said includes President Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking officials.

Colombia said it would favor a path for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to hand over power to a transition government tasked with organizing new elections — preferring the idea over the alternative of a more forceful U.

A report revealed that serious legal objections by the senior lawyer at SOUTHCOM concerning deadly strikes on boats were overruled.

Differences of opinion, complicated by unease over President Trump’s immigration policies, are creating tense divisions among Venezuelans in South Florida.