{"id":30576,"date":"2025-10-25T21:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30576"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:13:57","slug":"what-is-trumps-strategy-to-tackle-the-uss-illegal-drug-problem-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30576","title":{"rendered":"What is Trump\u2019s strategy to tackle the US\u2019s illegal drug problem? | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>US military strikes abroad win local support but critics say the issue is more complex.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has carried out strikes near Venezuela that President Donald Trump says are targeting drug gangs.<\/p>\n<p>That is disputed, but the major military mobilisation has brought the issue of narcotics front and centre.<\/p>\n<p>How bad is the problem in the country, and what\u2019s Trump\u2019s strategy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sanho Tree \u2013 Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and director of the Drug Policy Project<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Sheffield \u2013 Senior policy analyst at the Independent Women\u2019s Forum<\/p>\n<p>Ernesto Castaneda \u2013 Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 25 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">25 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military strikes abroad win local support but critics say the issue is more complex. The United States has carried out strikes near Venezuela that President Donald Trump says are targeting drug gangs. That is disputed, but the major military mobilisation has brought the issue of narcotics front and centre. How bad is the problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[964,252,408,150,1651,1670,185,81,71,2104],"class_list":{"0":"post-30576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-donald","9":"tag-drug","10":"tag-illegal","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-problem","13":"tag-strategy","14":"tag-tackle","15":"tag-trump","16":"tag-trumps","17":"tag-uss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}