Donald Trump has announced a military coalition with a dozen Latin American countries to combat drug cartels, as the US president pushed regional allies to allow more military action from Washington inside their borders.
Trump also took a swipe at Mexico for rejecting his offer to use the US military to pursue cartel leaders and facilities, and said that the US would “soon be coming to Cuba” which was teetering “very much at the end of the line” without money or oil.
The president’s comments at a summit with Latin American leaders held at his Doral resort in Florida came in the middle of his week-old war against Iran, the most significant US military intervention overseas since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.