Counter Cartel Coalition Announcement

I'm grateful to be here with ministers and chiefs of defense united

in purpose and resolve as partners in the Americas

Counter Cartel Coalition, or ACCC.

Just a few months ago, we laid out a shared vision for a safe,

secure

Western Hemisphere where borders and laws

are respected,

and narco-terrorists are brought to swift and absolute justice.

So I wanna thank the President of Panama. I wanna thank Minister Abrego.

I wanna thank all of our Panamanian partners for being such great hosts here

and for PANAMAX, which is ongoing for the first time in,

in fourteen years,

live here in Panama. Thousands of troops right now from many of

the nations represented here. And I wanna thank every single country,

sovereign, strong country, willing to step up and address this

threat as a part of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition.

Additionally, I wanna thank Jamaica for working with the

Department of War to

create a new military partnership to cripple narco-terrorists that transit

through the Caribbean. And finally,

I'm also proud to announce that Colombia will join the

ACCC, becoming the nineteenth member.

The new motto of the ACCC is: we do bad things to bad people.

Narco-terrorists, DTOs, drug traffickers are

hereby on notice.