{"id":13038,"date":"2025-09-09T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-sets-its-sights-on-puerto-rico-in-combatting-cartels\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:16","slug":"pentagon-sets-its-sights-on-puerto-rico-in-combatting-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-sets-its-sights-on-puerto-rico-in-combatting-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon sets its sights on Puerto Rico in combatting cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story  Pentagon sets its sights on Puerto Rico in combatting cartels Top Pentagon officials made a surprise trip to Puerto Rico on Monday amid the Trump administration&rsquo;s push to counter drug cartels in Latin America and the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5492851-pentagon-sets-its-sights-on-puerto-rico-in-combatting-cartels\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Blue Light News&#8217;s Defense &amp; NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &amp;National Security Defense &amp;National Security &#8202; The Big Story Pentagon sets its sights on Puerto Rico in combatting cartels Top Pentagon officials made a surprise trip to Puerto Rico on Monday amid the Trump administration&rsquo;s push to counter drug cartels in Latin America and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}