《纽约时报》报道，随着五角大楼扩大对毒品贩运者的行动，美国正向拉美派遣数百名士兵。
The US is sending hundreds of soldiers to Latin America as the Pentagon widens its campaign against drug traffickers, The New York Times reported.
据报道，一个600人的营正被部署到巴拿马；追踪此类部署的研究小组负责人表示，他记不起曾有过类似规模的部署，除非是入侵或自然灾害等应急情况。特朗普总统已将打击卡特尔列为其第二个任期的优先事项，但美国对所谓毒品贩运者的打击对全球可卡因贸易几乎没有影响，货运量反而升至历史最高水平。一位专家对《华尔街日报》表示，华盛顿的政策“更多是关于可见性和叙事……而非真正破坏有组织犯罪的行动。”
A 600-strong battalion is reportedly being deployed to Panama; the head of a research group that tracks such deployments said he could not recall one “that ever came close to 600 except for contingencies like invasions or natural disasters.”President Donald Trump has made fighting cartels a priority of his second term, but US strikes on alleged drug traffickers have done little to dent the global cocaine trade, with shipments rising to record levels. Washington’s policy “is more about visibility and narrative… than one that genuinely disrupts organized crime,” an expert told The Wall Street Journal.