The Trump administration is expected to designate Venezuela’s "Cartel de los Soles" or Cartel of the Suns as a foreign terrorist organisation on Monday, in a move that will put further pressure on the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro.
The designation comes after a large US military build-up near the Venezuelan coast, and amid ongoing strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, which to date have killed more than 80 people.
