Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, provided expert analysis to Deutsche Welle News after President Donald Trump authorized a covert CIA operation against Venezuela as part of his administration's escalating “war on drugs.” The move continues to mark a major shift in Washington's policy of treating organized crime groups as terrorists, reshaping security dynamics in the region, and follows earlier strikes on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean, which the UN described as extrajudicial killings.
