CRIME/DRUGS/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2018
Pursuant to section 706(1) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-228) (FRAA), I hereby identify the following countries as major drug transit and/or major illicit drug producing countries: Afghanistan, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela…
You are hereby authorized and directed to submit this designation, with its Bolivia and Venezuela memoranda of justification, under section 706 of the FRAA, to the Congress, and publish it in the Federal Register.”
-Donald Trump, “Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State,” White House Office of the Press Secretary, Sept. 13, 2017