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After conducting a military operation to capture Venezuelan Leftist leader Nicholas Maduro and his wife last weekend, US President Donald Trump has said that Washington will now begin striking the drug cartels of Mexico. He explained that after maritime attacks in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, which he claimed gave the US maximum success in taking out the cartels, land strikes are incoming.
JUST IN: President Trump says the United States will be conducting land strikes against the cartels.
"We are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico."
"It's very, very sad to watch and see what's happened to that country, but pic.twitter.com/uWnw0nQ76r— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 9, 2026
"We are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico. It's very, very sad to watch and see what's happened to that country, but the cartels are running, and they're killing 250,000 to 300,000 people in our country every single year," the 79-year-old Republican told Fox News's Sean Hannity during his first sit-down interview after Maduro's capture.
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Jan 9, 2026
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