The U.S. military will assist in the fight against Latin American drug cartels, President Donald Trump directed.

Trump secretly signed a directive to the Defense Department to begin using military force against cartels the administration has deemed terrorist organizations, The New York Times reported Friday.

The news came a day after it was reported the Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

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