DORAL, Fla. — President Donald Trump is hosting leaders from Latin America at his Doral golf club over the weekend to talk crime and cartel crackdowns.

The drums came to welcome Trinidad & Tobago’s prime minister to Miami on Friday, but the secret service had whisked her off the flight privately.

She’s one of more than a dozen heads of state headed for president trump’s “Shield of the Americas” summit in Doral on fighting narco-terrorism in the hemisphere.

“No one knows that problem better than Trinbagonians,” Trinidadian-American Manni Maharaj said.

At least one family there is questioning why their loved one’s boat was blown up as a suspected drug boat by the U.S. military last year.

Now the capture and ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to face U.S. narcotrafficking charges changed the calculus, lifting the risk for neighboring nations to publicly join the Trump administration’s aggressive monthslong drug war.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was in Doral on Thursday for a joint declaration that served as a prelude to the president’s summit.

Combating narcoterrorism was the big headline. The bigger picture: Combatting Chinese influence in the hemisphere and reshaping alliances.

There was high security at Doral’s Cultural Center at the invite-only evening reception Friday night.

And already, Doral traffic got even more challenging around the Trump National Doral golf club a mile away, where Saturday’s summit will be.

High security, heavy traffic: Doral braces for international summit

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