Operation Southern Spear: Pete Hegseth Visits Dominican Republic to Bolster Drug Fighting Mission
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the Dominican Republic on Wednesday amid Operation Southern Spear’s fight against drug trafficking.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth will visit the Dominican Republic on Wednesday amid Operation Southern Spear’s fight against drug trafficking.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced on Monday that it had plans to open four new embassies in Latin America by the end of the year and over ten new consular offices in Europe – in part at the expense of Ukraine’s embassy in Cuba.

Officials in the Dominican Republic said on Thursday the death toll from Tuesday’s tragic collapse of a popular nightclub has grown to over 200 people.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.

The Dominican Republic said the United Nations had not consulted it to create a “humanitarian air bridge” to Haiti.

Citing illegal immigration and drugs and weapons smuggling, the Dominican Republic is building a wall on its border with Haiti.
