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Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:34 AM Thursday

Trump just ordered the summary execution of 11 people alleged to be drug traffickers. [View all]

Kenneth Roth @KenRoth
Former Philippine President Duterte is in custody in The Hague, having been charged by the International Criminal Court for ordering the summary execution of alleged drug traffickers. Trump just ordered the summary execution of 11 alleged drug traffickers.

Ben Meiselas @meiselasb 8h
So is the Trump plan that he will just never provide specific details on the 11 Venezuelans murdered in a small fishing boat in the execution video. We just get a “trust me bro” they were gang members.

John Jackson @hissgoescobra 7h
That’s 👏 Not 👏 How 👏 This 👏 Works 👏.
The Pentagon is working—STILL—to make up a legal rationale for slaughtering 11 people, 1,500 miles from America, AFTER THE FACT? WHAT? You can’t do this after they’re dead. That is a crime. That is murder.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/politics/hegseth-venezuela-drug-strike.html?smid=url-share

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__Trump let 17 family members of drug cartel leaders into the United States as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.

Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzmán López had entered the U.S. Lopez, the son of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, was extradited to the U.S. in 2023.

Video footage posted online Tuesday by Spanish-language outlet Radio Formula shows Guzmán's family carrying luggage as they wait to be processed at the Tijuana/San Diego border crossing. They reportedly packed $70,000 in cash with them.

The confirmation by García Harfuch came the same day the office of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced it was charging a number of top cartel leaders with "narcoterrorism" for the first time since the Trump administration declared a number of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Guzmán López, 35, also known as "the Mouse," is one of the four of Guzmán's sons known as "Los Chapitos," who ran the Sinaloa Cartel in their father's absence. At his peak, the elder Guzmán was one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, turning the Sinaloa Cartel into a major force and one of the largest groups responsible for illegal drugs pouring into the U.S.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/el-chapos-family-members-cross-us-border-apparent-deal-trump-administration
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