President Donald Trumps decision to designate an alleged drug cartel that the US links to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization provides the Pentagon with a range of new options US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said On Sunday US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US would designate the Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization which makes it a crime for anyone in the US to provide material support to the group Hegseth spoke with One America News and in excerpts released on Thursday was quoted as saying the designation brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States
