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Cartels Look OUT! Trump sends Military to Southern Caribbean & Venezuela Waters · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If they express their gratitude towards the United States government
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  Speaker 1: on towards President Trump for the pressure he's outing against Maluro,
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  Speaker 1: They're going to face horrible consequences. That's why you don't
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  Speaker 1: really see a lot of expressions coming out of Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I have people there.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to them. They are copying.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. It is nice to have you with
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  Speaker 4: us after the Labor Day weekend into all American workers.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for what you do. We've got one big
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  Speaker 4: story this morning, and it involves Donald Trump going after
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  Speaker 4: cartels who've been designated as terrorist organizations in a way
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  Speaker 4: we haven't seen in my lifetime. The United States has
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  Speaker 4: significantly ramped up its military presence in the Southern Caribbean,
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  Speaker 4: and now there are seven to eight warships, including a
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  Speaker 4: nuclear powered submarine, on top of thousands of US military personnel.
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  Speaker 4: So what is this all about. I'm going to explain
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  Speaker 4: it to you. Wise Maduro terrified after we've up the
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  Speaker 4: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump made it very clear when he was
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  Speaker 4: running for president and backing it up now that if
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  Speaker 4: you are in the drug trade, he considers you a
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  Speaker 4: dangerous individual that is a member of a terrorist organization,
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  Speaker 4: and he's not gonna allow Americans to die at the
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  Speaker 4: hands of fetnel and other drugs that have been pouring
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  Speaker 4: into this country. Now, lots of those drugs have been
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  Speaker 4: stopped because we have secured the border, but the President
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  Speaker 4: says that's not enough. And now we're seeing what is
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  Speaker 4: next on the present's agenda. The United States has significantly
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  Speaker 4: ramped up its military presence in the Southern Caribbean. We
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  Speaker 4: are now learning this started in late August and now
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  Speaker 4: into September, as the US Navy has deployed around seven
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  Speaker 4: to eight warships, including very large cruisers, amphibious assault vessels,
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  Speaker 4: and at least one nuclear powered submarine. That's not all.
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  Speaker 4: More than four thousand US personnel, including about twenty two
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  Speaker 4: hundred Marines, are now operating in the area. This build
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  Speaker 4: up includes surveillance aircraft and even a US spy plane.
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  Speaker 4: We're being told the stated objective is actually very clear
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  Speaker 4: combat drug cartels, and the Trump administration has framed this
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  Speaker 4: deployment as part of a broader campaign against Latin American
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  Speaker 4: drug trafficking and criminal networks. Officials have labeled Venezuelan President
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  Speaker 4: Maduro as a narco trafficker, boosting the reward for his
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  Speaker 4: capture now to fifty million dollars, and designating his alleged
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  Speaker 4: cartel of the SUNS a terrorist organization. Merdua's reaction has
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  Speaker 4: been fierce. He's armed and mobilized and defiant President Maduro
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  Speaker 4: taking strong countermeasures, deploying troops along the coast and Columbia border.
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  Speaker 4: He's also called on citizens to join civilian militias and
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  Speaker 4: warrened he would quote constitutionally declare republic in arms if
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  Speaker 4: the US forces attack. Maduro and other Venezuelan officials are
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  Speaker 4: now accusing the US of using anti drug rhetoric as
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  Speaker 4: a pretext for regime change and gunboat diplomacy. Here's more
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  Speaker 4: about the move from Fox News.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the US is deploying destroyers and thousands of marines
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  Speaker 5: towards Venezuela as President Trump looks to crack down on
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  Speaker 5: curtels and the Maduda regime. They could reportedly reach the
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  Speaker 5: country's coast as soon as tomorrow. Here to discuss is
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  Speaker 5: dissident Project speaker and an immigrant from Venezuela Jorgue Galicia,
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  Speaker 5: along with trigger U political commentator and Venezuelan political refugee
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  Speaker 5: Franklin Carmargo. So great to have you both on. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to start with you, coote Kea. What is the
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  Speaker 5: reaction to Venezuelan's I know you guys are in close
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  Speaker 5: contact with people who are living there right now. Over
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  Speaker 5: seventy eighty percent of the country voted for the opposition
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  Speaker 5: party against Madudo. How are they feeling in this moment
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  Speaker 5: knowing that these destroyers are coming so close to the
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  Speaker 5: Venezuelan coast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, Rachel, thank you for having me again.
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  Speaker 1: I think how many people in Venezuela are extremely optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot really be loud about it because they're facing
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  Speaker 1: a terrible criminal regime.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I spoke to one of the opposition activists who was
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  Speaker 5: holed up in that embassy for over a year before
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  Speaker 5: she was rescued, and I asked her and she said,
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  Speaker 5: it's a silent euphoria. And so while they're quietly celebrating
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  Speaker 5: what President Trump is doing right now in Venezuelan for
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  Speaker 5: the whole Western hemisphere. Franklin, meanwhile, Venezuelans who are living
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  Speaker 5: abroad are putting out the most remarkable TikTok Instagram videos
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  Speaker 5: I've ever seen. You're seeing the destroyers coming into the
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  Speaker 5: ocean and the planes coming overhead and YMCA playing, and
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  Speaker 5: just the euphoria from the dissident community who's abroad is
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  Speaker 5: so palpable and thankful to the administration. Give us more
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  Speaker 5: context to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the Venezuelan people recognizes that the Truma administration is
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the biggest allies that freedom fighters Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: freedom fighters have had over the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone who has recognized that Maduro is not just
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  Speaker 2: a threat to South America. It's not just a threat
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  Speaker 2: to Venezuelans, but it's also a threat to the American people.
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  Speaker 6: And I think this is the most important thing to
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  Speaker 6: mention right now.
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  Speaker 2: When we talk about Nicolas Maduru, when we talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Venezuelan regime, we're not just talking about a government
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  Speaker 2: that we dislike or a dictatorship, a soft dictatorship. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about narco state government that produced over twenty five
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  Speaker 2: percent of.
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  Speaker 6: The entire cocaine that is produced in the entire world.
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  Speaker 2: It's also a regime that sent Trendagua, the same criminal
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  Speaker 2: organization that killed for example, Lake in Riley, or that
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  Speaker 2: killed Joseline Nongarai. So there is a need for the
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  Speaker 2: American people, for the well being of the.
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  Speaker 6: American people in the Western hemisphere, to.
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  Speaker 2: Have a regime changed to stop to stop these cartoons.
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  Speaker 2: But Venezuela's recognized that Trump is an ally that the
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  Speaker 2: US government is probably the biggest hope that.
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  Speaker 6: We currently have.
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  Speaker 4: Now you hear the stats there, I mean, it's very
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  Speaker 4: clear that not only is this in essence a failed state,
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  Speaker 4: it's a state where the people rose up against Maduro
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  Speaker 4: and he just coined the power. Anyway, and now we
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  Speaker 4: know that he is nothing but a narco terrorist. It
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  Speaker 4: is a terrorist organization that he's a part of, and
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  Speaker 4: his money is coming directly from theine that he is
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  Speaker 4: delivering to the world. Yet Venezuela's president is now accusing
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  Speaker 4: the United States of seeking regime change in his country.
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  Speaker 4: And the military deployment that has happened now it was
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  Speaker 4: authorized by President Trump in a simple effort to disrupt
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  Speaker 4: drug cartel activity. It's part of the White Houses they
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  Speaker 4: described it his broader border policy. Maduro said the build
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  Speaker 4: up is an intervention in his quote country's affairs, saying
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  Speaker 4: this to the people, they are seeking regime change through
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  Speaker 4: military threat, and that's where he also wants the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the world to believe. Maduro added, quote, Venezuela is
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  Speaker 4: confronting the biggest threat that has ever seen on our
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  Speaker 4: continent in the last one hundred years, and saying a
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  Speaker 4: situation like this has never been seen. Maduro said Venezuela
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  Speaker 4: won't bow to threats and that it was super prepared.
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  Speaker 4: Now the Trump administration is accused again Maduau of engaging
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  Speaker 4: in drug trafficking, going so far as to announce that
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  Speaker 4: fifty million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest
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  Speaker 4: and his conviction. The fifty million dollars that is not
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  Speaker 4: a little amount of money when it comes to how
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  Speaker 4: much we're willing to pay as a nation. This is
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  Speaker 4: one of the biggest rewards we've ever had. Take a
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  Speaker 4: listen to this from Fox as well.
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  Speaker 1: People have wanted to do this for years.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump putting war back in the War on drugs,
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  Speaker 7: designating eight drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 8: It allows us to now target what they're operating and
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  Speaker 8: to use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the
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  Speaker 8: Department of Defense, whatever to target these groups. If we
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  Speaker 8: have an opportunity to do it. We have to start
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  Speaker 8: treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug dealing organizations.
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  Speaker 7: That changes the battlefield. Cartel members become enemy combatants and
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  Speaker 7: allow the use of military assets. The question is how
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  Speaker 7: the Navy intercepting ships carrying narcotics special operations targeting cartel
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  Speaker 7: leaders or drone strikes on drug labs in Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: Mexico probably doesn't want that, but we have to do
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  Speaker 4: what's right.
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  Speaker 7: Publicly, President Claudia Scheinbaum says Mexico will cooperate, but claims
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  Speaker 7: the US plans no boots on the ground, nothing in it.
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  Speaker 6: It has nothing to do with Mexican territory.
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  Speaker 1: It has to do with their country.
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  Speaker 3: It does not involve our territory.
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  Speaker 7: Yet, most cocaine goes through Mexico, and it produces most
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  Speaker 7: of the FETE and all that killed more than two
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  Speaker 7: hundred and sixty five thousand Americans during President Biden's term.
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  Speaker 1: These are armed organizations that have their own militaries.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely believe that we need to take action.
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  Speaker 6: It's what type of action are we going to take.
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  Speaker 7: But just because you don't hear about an operation doesn't
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  Speaker 7: mean it didn't happen. Now, one of the name cartels
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  Speaker 7: is the Venezuelan gang Trende a Agua. Last week, the
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  Speaker 7: US slept a fifty million dollar bounty. I'm President Nicholas Maduro,
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  Speaker 7: accusing him of using it to help traffic narcotics into
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  Speaker 7: the US.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just stop there for a second and also just
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  Speaker 4: recognize something that was said there. Under the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 4: more than a quarter million Americans died from fetnyl, an
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  Speaker 4: overdose from fetnyl. You think about that number, and then
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  Speaker 4: you think about these cartels. They've engaged in historic violence
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  Speaker 4: and tear throughout our hemisphere and around the globe. They
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  Speaker 4: have destabilized the economies and internal security of countries while
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  Speaker 4: also flooding the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals,
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  Speaker 4: and vicious gangs. That is what the Chief Pentagon spokesman,
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  Speaker 4: Sean Parnell said during a news conference this week. He
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  Speaker 4: also said this it requires a whole of government effort,
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  Speaker 4: and through coordination with regional partners, the Department of Defense
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  Speaker 4: will undoubtedly play an important role in meeting the Presence
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  Speaker 4: objective to eliminate the ability of these cartels to threaten
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  Speaker 4: the territory, safety, and the security of the United States
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  Speaker 4: and its people. As a matter of security and policy,
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  Speaker 4: we do not speculate on future operations now. What is
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  Speaker 4: very clear is the Presence saying I'm not waiting around
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  Speaker 4: for nations to act. I'm going to act now because
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  Speaker 4: it's important that we protect and defend America's home win
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  Speaker 4: and make sure that while he's present, another quarter million
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  Speaker 4: Americans don't lose their lives to fetnal overdoses, and that
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  Speaker 4: doesn't count all of those that are killed by cartel
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  Speaker 4: members and the violent gangs that are in America as well.
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