By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

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Quiénes son los narcoterroristas: Donald Trump amenaza con hacer la guerra a Venezuela y Colombia, 

Por Michel Chossudovsky

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President Trump Defines the “Drug Cartels” as “Terrorists”

In December 2019, President Donald Trump offered to intervene in Mexico, i.e. “to go after the Drug Cartels”. The Mexican president turned down Trump’s generous offer.

And then President Trump confirmed that his administration was considering categorizing “drug cartels” as “terrorists”,  akin to Al Qaeda –with the exception that they are “Catholic terrorists”. 

They would henceforth be designated by Washington as “foreign terrorist organizations”.

What is the unspoken intent? 

Create a justification for US-led “counterterrorism” (military) operations directed against Latin America countries?

Extend the “War on Terrorism” to Latin America?

“Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). Go after the “Narco-terrorists”. 

Trump’s Threats Directed against Venezuela during his First Presidential Mandate 

Already in 2019, US federal prosecutors were accusing Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro of  participating (according to the NYT)

“in a narco-terrorism conspiracy, in a major escalation of the [first] Trump administration’s efforts to pressure him to leave office”. 

New York Times, March 26, 2020

President Trump, in his State of the Union address in February 2020, had already labeled Mr. Maduro “an illegitimate ruler, a tyrant who brutalizes his people,” and vowed that his “grip on tyranny will be smashed and broken.” 

Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address

Reference to Venezuela, video starts at 40′.35″ until 42′.39″ (manual)

“The Trump administration has issued a series of increasingly harsh sanctions over the past year intended to strangle the Maduro government, but Mr. Maduro has held on.” (NYT March 26, 2020)

These sanctions have now (October 2025) evolved towards threats to wage war against Venezuela and Colombia. (See below)

And now Donald Trump (October 2025) is Threatening to wage war on Colombia.

Trump’s statements at the Press Conference at the White House (October 23, 2023)