US Sends Aircraft Carrier to Latin America, Stepping Up Campaign

The US is sending a naval strike group including its most modern aircraft carrier to Latin America, sharply escalating a military campaign that’s targeted drug cartels and unsettled governments in the region.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the region to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere,” spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media.

The Trump administration’s military operation in the region has killed 43 people in 10 strikes ...