Pete Hegseth ACCC new motto
Pete Hegseth delivered a hardline message in Panama, unveiling the new motto for the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition: "we do bad things to bad people." He stated that good guys are finished playing soft while criminal networks poison communities and destroy lives across the hemisphere. With Colombia joining the fight and joint operations officially greenlit, the ACCC is stepping in as the new sheriff. The warning is clear: there are no more free passes for cartels operating in the region.
Transcript (en)
I'm proud to announce the new motto of the ACCC, maybe formal, maybe informal, I haven't decided yet. The new motto of the ACCC is we do bad things to bad people. That's the mentality I want to have inside this room. Now, we're good people that do good things, but ultimately we're dealing with bad people that have done a lot of bad things to a lot of good people for a very long time. And they're about to meet a new sheriff in town in the ACCC.
