The moment before an alleged drug boat was hit in a targeted U.S. strike. @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued more than two dozen executive orders. One designated eight Latin American cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This action was unusual because cartels are not terrorist organizations. Cartels are criminal organizations that operate purely for monetary benefit.

Terrorist groups use violence for political purposes. Designating cartels as “terror organizations” does not automatically turn them into Al-Qaeda, but it allows the president to use military force against them rather than federal law enforcement.

Fred Kahn, the founder of FinCrime Central, feels the executive order simply acknowledged a decade-old reality

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