A shop's windows are riddled with bullets after a gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces in Villa Union, Mexico, near the border with the US, in December 2019.
Mandatory Credit:	Eduardo Verdugo/AP/File via CNN Newsource

A shop's windows are riddled with bullets after a gun battle between a heavily armed drug cartel assault group and security forces in Villa Union, Mexico, near the border with the US, in December 2019.
Mandatory Credit: Eduardo Verdugo/AP/File via CNN Newsource

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CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels

The CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels in Mexico and beyond as the Trump administration moves to make taking on the cartels a major priority for the intelligence agency, according to a US official and three people briefed on the matter.