President Donald Trump asked 18 Latin American and Caribbean nations to designate two dozen cartels and criminal groups as terrorist organizations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, as the administration seeks broader regional cooperation against drug-trafficking groups.
Rubio said Trump made the request Tuesday during a meeting in New York with leaders and senior officials from the Shield of the Americas, a 19-nation coalition including the United States, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
