The government of France announced a substantial investment in law enforcement and military activities in the Caribbean on Sunday, including the deployment of two nautical brigades and a slew of surveillance drones and radar resources, to fight an explosion in drug trafficking in the region.

France is a Caribbean country by way of preserving several territories in the sea. Paris sent its Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau to the island of Guadeloupe this weekend, part of a greater tour of the region that began on August 21, to address what French officials described as an eruption in violent crime tied to a growing volume of drug trafficking in the sea. The French announcement followed multiple reports of an increase in U.S. Navy activity in the southern Caribbean intended to curb

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