At the first summit meeting of the Shield of the Americas on March 7, more than a dozen countries in the Caribbean and Latin America signed a joint security declaration with the U.S., which called for increased cooperation on international security. The signatories agreed to “join a coalition to combat narco-terrorism” and advocated for the policy of “peace through strength.”
The Shield is President Donald Trump‘s new international coalition to combat drug cartels in the Americas — but experts say it uses old, heavy-handed tactics, with a focus more on centralized control than real results.
