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From Ecuador's jungles to Mexico's cartel heartland, a hemisphere-wide military and financial coalition is dismantling the narco-terrorist networks that have claimed more American lives than any war and that have terrorized and killed countless more of our neighbors throughout the hemisphere.
On Saturday March 7, President Trump hosted a Shield of the Americas summit in Doral, Florida. It established a counter-cartel coalition to wage war against an enemy that stands in the way of peace and prosperity throughout the Western Hemisphere. The summit was attended by the leaders of 12 Ibero-American leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The attendance of Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at the summit underscores that its purpose is to free the nations of the hemisphere so they can industrialize to the benefit of their people.
Two days earlier on March 5, U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth spoke at the first "Americas Counter Cartel Conference."
In his speech the Secretary stressed the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:
"We, like you, want borders and sovereign territories that are secure. We want unfettered access to key terrain and trade so that our nations can industrialize."
As Hegseth pointed out, due to the policies of previous leaders,
"more than 1 million Americans were killed by fentanyl, cocaine and other drugs, numbers greater than any casualties we've sustained in war. Millions of illegal aliens invaded our borders and destabilized nations across the hemisphere. Under Joe Biden's administration, the human smuggling industry exploded by more than 2,000 percent, from a $500 million so-called industry in 2018 to $13 billion by 2022."
The nations attending the Counter Cartel Conference declared that they would:
At the Shield of the Americas summit President Trump and the Ibero-American leaders in attendance signed the Doral Charter, formally establishing a counter-cartel coalition to free the hemisphere of drug cartels and to realize the unlimited economic potential of the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
In April 2025, days after he was reelected, Ecuadorian President Noboa met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago and asked the United States to help fight drug trafficking cartels operating in Ecuador while expressing his intention to establish a security alliance between both countries. By November, then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was making an official visit to Ecuador to deepen the security relationship.
Days before the launch of Shield of the Americas, the US and Ecuador launched a joint military operation against the drug cartels in Ecuador.
On March 2, 2026, President Noboa met with General Donovan and Rear Admiral Mark A. Schafer, Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH) at the Ecuadorian presidential palace in Quito. President Noboa said the meeting was part of the "bilateral dialogue to deepen cooperation and coordination in the face of transnational threats that affect national and regional stability."
Then on March 3, Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched joint operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations inside Ecuador. SOUTHCOM Commander Donovan declared the operations "a powerful example of the commitment of partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the scourge of narco-terrorism." Three days later — the eve of the Shield of the Americas summit — SOUTHCOM announced "At the order of Secretary of War Hegseth, General Donovan directed the joint force to support Ecuadorian forces conducting lethal kinetic operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations within Ecuador."
"This collaborative and decisive action," Donovan said, "is a strategic success for all nations in the Western Hemisphere committed to disrupting and defeating narcoterrorism."
Ecuador is, in miniature, exactly what Trump and Hegseth envision for the hemisphere: a sovereign nation coordinating closely with American military and intelligence assets, and executing operations on its own soil with U.S. support.
Mexico did not attend the Shield of the Americas summit. President Sheinbaum has firmly and consistently rejected any U.S. military presence on Mexican soil, insisting that sovereignty is non-negotiable. President Trump, for his part, said "I like the President very much" — and the results on the ground suggest the two leaders have arrived at an effective working arrangement, which respects Mexican national sovereignty.
The capstone came on February 22, 2026: a Mexican military raid killed Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the CJNG — the most powerful cartel in Mexico — in Jalisco, with U.S. intelligence support.
The operation was not carried out in isolation. It was undertaken in close partnership with U.S. authorities, relying on shared intelligence, coordinated targeting, and operational synchronization. Sheinbaum's administration has also accelerated extraditions of senior cartel figures to U.S. courts, disrupting command structures and removing high-level operators from Mexican territory. Her Operation Swarm, launched in November 2024, has netted some 60 individuals across six states — including sitting and former mayors and municipal security directors.
On March 31, 2025, Treasury's OFAC designated six individuals and seven entities in a money laundering network supporting the Sinaloa Cartel — the culmination of a joint investigation by the DOJ, DEA, FBI, IRS-CI, HSI, and Mexico's own Financial Intelligence Unit.
On June 25, 2025, FinCEN designated three Mexico-based banks — CIBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa — as primary money laundering concerns, having processed millions in payments to China-based fentanyl precursor suppliers on behalf of four major cartels.
The cartel money networks also run through prestigious British and Canadian banking addresses. The British HSBC — founded in 1865 to service the opium trade — paid $1.9 billion in 2012 for allowing cartels to transfer hundreds of millions through its accounts. Canada's TD Bank agreed in October 2024 to pay over $3 billion for failing to monitor $18.3 trillion in transactions over six years. According to FinCEN, U.S. financial institutions processed $312 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Chinese money laundering networks between January 2020 and December 2024 alone.
By December 2025, FinCEN had launched a multi-tiered operation targeting more than 100 U.S. money service businesses along the southwest border and had sanctioned 27 individuals and entities connected to the Hysa Organized Crime Group. This was done two days after Mexico itself had suspended 13 Mexican casinos used to launder narcotics proceeds.
The decisive breakthrough on fentanyl's chemical supply chain came on October 30, 2025, when Presidents Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Busan, South Korea. China agreed to halt shipments of designated fentanyl precursor chemicals to North America and to strictly control exports of certain other chemicals globally.
In May 2023, Mexican President Lopez Obrador, who had had a good working relationship with President Trump, announced that the Mexican Navy found packages with traces of fentanyl in a container originating from Qingdao, China. But with Biden as U.S. President, China refused to take action as requested by AMLO. All that was necessary was to elect a different U.S. President — Donald J. Trump.
Meanwhile, India was emerging as a secondary source for finished fentanyl powder and precursor chemicals. The Trump administration moved preemptively: on March 20, 2025, an India-based chemical manufacturer, Vasudha Pharma Chem Limited, and three of its executives were charged in federal court in Washington, D.C. with manufacturing and distributing a fentanyl precursor chemical for importation into the U.S. President Trump's upcoming three-day visit to China from March 31 to April 2 for a summit with President Xi will undoubtedly reinforce the October 2025 agreement.
The Shield of the Americas summit was built around established partners — but Trump's overall strategy as expressed in his National Security Strategy is to Enlist and Expand.
The United States military conducted over 40 operations against drug-smuggling boats originating from or linked to Venezuela since September 2025, culminating in the arrest of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on drug trafficking charges.
At the Doral summit, Trump announced that the United States had formally recognized Venezuela's new government — a historic shift already producing strategic dividends. Colombia's defense minister has reported that since Maduro's ouster, Venezuela has begun pushing Colombian rebel groups back across the border, opening what he called "a unique opportunity" for restored security cooperation.
Following a "constructive" meeting between Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro in February 2026, both sides pledged joint action against drug trafficking, with a particular focus on the Colombia-Venezuela border.
Colombia has reaffirmed its commitment to using U.S. technology and intelligence to destroy drug laboratories and criminal structures, with operations intensifying against the Clan del Golfo — the most powerful cartel in the country — and ELN forces controlling key drug-producing regions.
The cartel networks do not operate only in Latin America. Chicago serves as the primary national hub for Mexican cartel drug distribution throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States — a strategic transshipment point made more dangerous by the political protection networks that have shielded it.
In September 2023, Chicago's Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability voted to permanently abolish the Chicago Police Department's gang database, which contained over 134,000 entries. Combined with Chicago's sanctuary city status, the effect has been to protect the Sinaloa Cartel's distribution network.
The Trump administration's answer was Operation Broken Crown. On January 31, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the three-month nationwide operation led to the arrest of 50 members of the Latin Kings gang — the Sinaloa Cartel's primary Chicago distributors — along with seizure of $200,000 and 10 kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl.
During Trump's first year of his second term, 7,000 illegal immigrant gang members admitted under the Biden administration were arrested. The NO KINGs policy, it turns out, is being enforced by the Trump administration — not the ones who preached it.
"A treaty of alliance for conduct of war should be established between the United States and the governments of Ibero-American states… military actions should be conducted by assigned forces of the nation on whose territory the action occurs."
— Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Proposed Multi-National Strategic Operation Against the Drug Traffic, Mexico City, March 9, 1985
None of this would have surprised Lyndon LaRouche. Forty-one years ago, on March 9, 1985, LaRouche stood before a Western hemispheric anti-drug conference in Mexico City and presented a 15-point Proposed Multi-National Strategic Operation Against the Drug Traffic for the Western Hemisphere. It reads today less like a historical document and more like the Doral summit's working agenda.
LaRouche called for a treaty of alliance between the United States and Ibero-American governments for the explicit purpose of waging war on the drug traffic — exactly what the Doral Charter establishes.
He called for military actions to be conducted by the forces of the nation on whose territory the action occurs, with the U.S. providing "essential supplementary equipment and support personnel" rather than having American personnel engage directly in combat functions — precisely the Ecuador model, precisely the Mexico model, operating today.
He called for borders to be "virtually hermetically sealed against drug traffic" — and the U.S.-Mexico border is closer to that reality than at any point in living memory.
He called for total regulation of financial institutions to detect and choke off drug money flows — and Treasury's systematic campaign against cartel-linked banks, money service businesses, and financial networks is that program in action.
Most prescient of all, LaRouche warned that the drug traffickers' most powerful protection came not from their guns but from their political allies — "powerful groups which advocate either legalization of the drug traffic, or which campaign more or less efficiently to prevent effective forms of enforcement."
He pointed to the corrupting influence of financial interests associated with the drug trade penetrating governmental agencies, judicial systems, and political factions at every level. These are the networks that systematically fund prosecutors who gut gang databases, protect sanctuary cities, and throw open the gates through which the Sinaloa Cartel's distribution apparatus spread across the American heartland.
LaRouche was 41 years ahead of his time. What he saw as a strategic necessity in 1985 — a hemispheric military and financial alliance, sovereign nations acting on their own soil with U.S. support, cartels treated as the military enemies they are, and their financial networks strangled at the source — Trump, Hegseth, Sheinbaum, Noboa, and a growing coalition of hemisphere leaders are now building into operational reality.
The Doral Charter is a war plan. And the war is already underway.
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