A Florida-based multi-agency task force has made history, seizing 1 million pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2025 — the largest haul ever recorded. Officials say the bust denied cartels and narco-terrorists a staggering $11.34 billion in revenue and kept 377.9 million lethal doses off American streets.
The seizure was carried out by Joint Inter-Agency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), a SOUTHCOM-led unit that works alongside the U.S. Coast Guard and partner nations. “By disrupting the flow of these deadly drugs, JIATF-S is saving lives and protecting our homeland,” the agency declared. Officials noted the massive stockpile would have filled 42 dump trucks.
Operating across 42 million square miles from the Pacific to the Atlantic, JIATF-S has long targeted well-financed trafficking networks moving cocaine, arms, and cash through Latin America. This record seizure shows that Trump’s push to intensify counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean is working.
President Trump has gone further than any administration before him by labeling cartels like Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel as foreign terrorist organizations. He also put a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, accused of leading the Cartel of the Suns and conspiring with Colombia’s FARC to flood America with cocaine.
With U.S. destroyers now deployed in the region, Trump has sent a clear message: the era of unchecked cartel trafficking is over.
