President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores has been charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, including lending support to terrorists in crimes that stretched more than a decade, authorities announced in December. Trump wrote on his social media site Friday that “Tren de Aragua terrorists no longer have safe haven in Venezuela or anywhere else."

The U.S. military says it carried out another strike on a vessel accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Friday's attack was the third this week, killing three men and pushing the overall death toll above 200 people. U.S. Southern Command announced the latest strike in the monthslong campaign against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific with its usual language that the vessel was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations.” It provided no evidence. The Trump administration has declared that the U.S. is at armed conflict with Latin American drug cartels.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it will designate Brazil's two biggest criminal groups as foreign terror…