U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Latin American nations to use military power against the ¡°cancer¡± of drug cartels, offering to support them with U.S. missile strikes targeting narco kingpins.

Trump, currently waging a war with Iran, laid out a muscular position for advancing Washington¡¯s interests in the Western hemisphere, pronouncing that communist-led Cuba was ¡°in its last moments of life.¡±

He also advocated tough action by allies against organized crime blighting the region.