The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, now not only applauded the designation of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, but also praised the Donald Trump administration for establishing an offensive strategy.

“For the first time in the modern era, we are truly on the offensive against the organized cartels that are pumping poison—killer poison—into our cities, and that is a team effort,” he wrote on social media.

In particular, he praised the strategy against the Venezuelan Cartel of the Suns, which he accuses of injecting drugs into the U.S. market.

He said, it is a “team effort” that already has the collaboration of several countries in the region.

Rubio highlighted that in recent days Ecuador, Paraguay, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Argentina have joined or expressed their willingness to cooperate with Washington in the fight against drug trafficking. "We are building an international coalition against this scourge," said the head of US diplomacy at a meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet at the White House.

"The goal is not only to stop the entry of narcotics, but to take this battle to the international stage to confront those behind this deadly poison," said Rubio, referring to the Cartel of the Suns, a criminal organization linked to dictator Nicolas Maduro and sectors of Chavismo in Venezuela.

Washington maintains that the cartel operates as a cog in the Venezuelan state, favored by high-ranking members of the armed forces and the government, with operations that have direct implications for US national security.

Rubio lamented that so far "sufficient attention" has not been paid to this group, which, according to the Secretary of State, is "one of the largest criminal organizations."