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Trump Invites Latin Countries to Counter-Cartel Coalition: Do You Have Cartels? We'll Blow Them Up

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UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2026 07:21
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Monday, March 9, 2026 6:03 AM

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: This morning, I’m honored to welcome distinguished heads of state from across the Western Hemisphere for the first Shield of the Americas Summit. And it’s something very, very special. Marco’s been working on it very hard.

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But on this historic day, we come together to announce a brand new military coalition to eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region. And you have a lot of it. One of the things, when we were talking backstage, you were telling me that the crime, the cartels — and we’re knocking the hell out of them where we can. We’re going to go heavier. You saw what we were doing with the boats coming in. There’s not a lot of people coming in by boats anymore.

We knocked down drugs coming in by sea. Drugs coming in through water is down 96%. We’re trying to find out who the other 4% are, because I think they’re the bravest people in the world. Either that or they don’t watch television, right? They’re either very brave or they’re not watching.

But we’re calling this military partnership the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition. And that’s what you need. Do you have cartels? They seem to grow in this region unbelievably rapidly. It has to do with drugs largely.

Earlier this week here in Miami, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who’s right here — Pete, you’re fantastic, doing a great job. We’re proud of you. And representatives of 17 different nations formally entered this new alliance.

The heart of our agreement is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks once and for all. We’ll get rid of them. We need your help. You have to just tell us where they are. We have amazing weaponry, as you probably noticed over the last short period of time.

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All of the nations in this room share the same priorities: security, prosperity, free commerce, and the rule of law. And you want the rule of law. Sometimes your communities don’t let you have it because you’ve got some rough communities, man.

That’s why together we’re also forming the Shield of the Americas, a new organization to advance these shared priorities in our hemisphere.

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For decades, leaders in this region have allowed large swaths of territory of the Western Hemisphere to come under the direct control of transnational gangs. They’ve taken over. They’ve run areas of your country. We’re not going to let that happen. We’ll help you.

These bloodthirsty cartels impose their will through murder, torture, extortion, drug trafficking, bribery, and terror. Some of you are in danger. I mean, you’re actually in danger. Hard to believe, but we’re working with you to do whatever we have to do. We’ll use missiles. If you want us to use a missile, they’re extremely accurate. Right into the living room. That’s the end of that cartel person. But we’ll do whatever you need, if you want. A lot of countries don’t want to do that. They say, “Oh, sir, I’d rather not have that. I’d rather believe they could be spoken to.” I don’t think so.

Many of them don’t want it, and that’s okay too. You’re going to do you. But if you need help, you’re going to let us know, okay?

Many of the cartels have developed sophisticated military operations, highly sophisticated. In some cases, they say they’re more powerful than the military in the country. Can’t have that. These brutal criminal organizations pose an unacceptable threat to national security, and they provide a dangerous gateway for foreign adversaries in our region. And then we don’t want them near our country either. We don’t want them to come in. They’re cancer. They’re cancer, and we don’t want it spreading.

We have a very strong border. You know, we have a border now where for nine months zero people have been able to come through. It’s hard to believe, actually, because we went from 25 million people coming in over the Biden — Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst

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Monday, March 9, 2026 7:21 AM

Think back to when Joe Biden* was President.

You'd go 3 months at a time without hearing anything out of him. When he did speak, he had a teleprompter in front of him, and even then he flubbed every other line and sometimes read the stuff he wasn't supposed to read (like when he was being given directions on the teleprompter for what he was supposed to do after finishing a sentence).

Trump is out there, nearly every day, giving speeches like this on hundreds of different topics without any teleprompters. He rarely flubs anything. You might be able to cobble together a few over the last year, but it wouldn't have amounted to the amount of times Biden* would screw up a single speech or press conference.

And 6 weeks ago, in between the Epstein bullshit that you all pretend to care about now, you were trying to push the narrative that he's too old and his mind is going frail. Remember that?



Trump owns the Democratic Party now. The so-called "experts" look like bigger assholes everyday with all of their failed predictions. The Legacy Media doesn't know what the hell to do, because the only thing they all SHOULD be doing is praising Trump for everything he has accomplished and everything he is going to accomplish.

You people are done. And more importantly, America is done with you.



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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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