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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion is set to ramp up pres­sure on Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro on Mon­day by des­ig­nat­ing the Car­tel de los Soles as a for­eign ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tion. But the en­ti­ty that the U.S. gov­ern­ment al­leges is led by Maduro is not a car­tel per se.

The des­ig­na­tion is the lat­est mea­sure in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s es­ca­lat­ing cam­paign to com­bat drug traf­fick­ing in­to the U.S. In pre­view­ing the step about a week ago, U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio ac­cused Car­tel de los Soles, or Car­tel of the Suns, of be­ing “re­spon­si­ble for ter­ror­ist vi­o­lence” in the West­ern Hemi­sphere.

The move planned for Mon­day comes as Trump eval­u­ates whether to take mil­i­tary ac­tion against Venezuela, which Trump has not ruled out de­spite bring­ing up the pos­si­bil­i­ty of talks with Maduro. Land strikes or oth­er ac­tions would be a ma­jor ex­pan­sion of the month­s­long op­er­a­tion that has in­clud­ed a mas­sive mil­i­tary buildup in the Caribbean Sea and strik­ing boats ac­cused of traf­fick­ing drugs, killing more than 80 peo­ple.