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Cartels Increasingly Using Cargo Vessels To Smuggle Drugs As Trump Admin's Strikes Against Vessels Ramp Up

A container ship (Credit: AFP)

Drug cartels are increasingly changing the ways in which they send narcotics to the U.S. as the Trump administration continues its deployment to the Caribbean and its strikes against vessels allegedly carrying illegal substances.

A new report published by The New York Times detailed that criminal organizations are not stopping their activities due to the strikes and are resorting to alternative methods. Some, the outlet said, are taking drugs from Colombia to more islands before getting them on fast boats or container ships.

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