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Hegseth Partners With 17 Countries To Fight Narcoterrorists In Western Hemisphere

The Americas Counter Cartel Conference Joint Security Declaration aims to ‘expand multilateral and bilateral cooperation’ in the hemisphere to combat narcoterrorism and other security threats.

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U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND, DORAL, Fla. — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a joint security declaration on behalf of the United States Thursday, partnering with 17 countries in the Western Hemisphere to establish a unified front against narcoterrorists in the region using military deterrence.

Hegseth signed the document at a meeting of security and defense officials from South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries at the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) headquarters in Doral, Florida. The meeting included remarks from each delegation head, and Hegseth, White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan, and acting Assistant Secretary of War for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs Joseph Humire also spoke.

“When terrorist killers and cartels capture strategic infrastructure, resources, and entire towns or cities close to U.S. borders and U.S. shores, or profit from mass illegal migration, that is a threat to the United States homeland and a threat to all of you as well — to the Americas,” Hegseth said during his remarks.

“The same adversaries that threaten our shared heritage threaten our shared geography as well. They seek to displace the historic North-South relationship that we’ve always shared with some sort of a new ‘Global South’ that excludes the United States and other Western nations but includes non-Western powers and other adversaries. The answer to our challenge is not to ignore our........

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