Car­tel Coali­tion last Sat­ur­day may well be dri­ven by a gen­uine de­sire to con­front the grow­ing pow­er of transna­tion­al crim­i­nal car­tels.

Some months ago, I wrote of “a wel­come new mo­men­tum in re­la­tions be­tween the Unit­ed States and Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der the lead­er­ship of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.” US ...