Under President Trump, the CIA is expanding its focus on Mexican drug cartels, seeking to enhance collaboration with regional governments. This strategy involves sharing intelligence, training counternarcotics teams, and potentially covert operations. Director John Ratcliffe aims to apply lessons from counterterrorism to combat the influx of narcotics like fentanyl into the U.S., emphasizing the threat that cartels pose. While the CIA plans to increase support for anti-drug efforts in Mexico, whether direct action by U.S. personnel will occur remains uncertain.
"Lessons learned in the counterterrorism realm are applicable to the counternarcotics mission and the counter-cartel mission. The full weight of those has not been brought to bear on this problem."
A CIA spokesperson said in a statement that "countering drug cartels in Mexico and regionally is a priority for CIA as a part of the Trump Administration's broader efforts to end the grave threat from narco-trafficking."
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