Trump’s war on drugs stops at Mexican border — for now

Somewhere off the coast of Venezuela, a U.S. Navy radar locks onto a fast-moving vessel skimming through the Caribbean. The ship, believed to be carrying cocaine bound for the United States, is one of dozens targeted under Washington’s revived maritime counter-narcotics campaign — a series of deadly interdictions that have brought the U.S. military’s battlefront back to the Western Hemisphere.But as the U.S. clamps down at sea, cartels are already adapting. "They’re going to try and stay alive by moving cargo on aircraft," said Brent Sadler, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and forme