SOURCE ASSOCIATED PRESS- The U.S. military said it launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing three people Sunday.
The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 181 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Despite the Iran war, the series of strikes have ramped up again in the past week or so, showing that the administration’s aggressive measures to stop what it calls “narcoterrorism” in the Western Hemisphere are not letting up. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.
The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.
In the latest attack Sunday, U.S. Southern Command repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. It posted a video on X showing a boat moving along the water before a massive explosion engulfs the vessel in flames.
President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”
Critics, meanwhile, have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes.
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This video tells us nothing. Gives no co-ordinates of where within the Caribbean this strike took place. It does not show, in any detail, the deck, bow or stern of the boat where one could discern what this looked like.
We, here in Antigua, lost three of our fishermen out at sea recently. Did that strike take place very recently, or earlier?
Just because the US military says a boat is a drug running boat does not necessarily mean it is so. Trinidad also lost fishermen out to sea that it was claimed they were drug runners, but where is the evidence?
Joan of Ark that is what you must be.
@Joan, And the PM of Trinidad still support the illegal action – I wonder how the people in her country feel.
The USS how now become the Judge, jury and executioner. What a world we live in – without power we have no coice.