US EditionTrump administration announces another strike on alleged drug-carrying boat, in the Pacific Ocean
- On Tuesday, the U.S. military conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel Tuesday night, killing two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
- U.S. forces shifted focus toward Colombia, expanding targeting into South American waters where about 75% of cocaine moves through the eastern Pacific.
- In a video Hegseth posted Wednesday, a small boat half-filled with brown packages explodes, with Hegseth comparing the strikes to the war on terrorism.
- Returned survivors were sent to Ecuador and Colombia, and the administration has sidestepped prosecuting occupants after returning two survivors; Ecuadorian officials said they released the returned man for lack of evidence.
- Republican President Donald Trump has justified the strikes by saying the United States is engaged in an `armed conflict` with drug cartels, while the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea has raised speculation about broader regional aims.
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Deadly U.S. strike in Pacific expands Trump’s drug-smuggling war | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration has expanded its campaign of summarily killing people aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs to a new geographic theater, attacking a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean for the first time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today.
Illegal operations in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea ordered by President Donald Trump under the narrative of fighting drug trafficking already leave more than 30 people murdered.
US military kills two people in strike on suspected drug boat in Pacific
The US military launched its eighth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing two people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said, marking an expansion of the Trump administration's campaign against drug trafficking in South America.The attack on Tuesday night was a departure from the seven previous US strikes that had targeted vessels in the Caribbean.Hegseth said on social media that the lat…
The U.S. military campaign against Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean that have been targeted by civilians allegedly related to drug trafficking continued on Tuesday off the Colombian coast in the Pacific, reports El País de España. U.S. military killed two crew members, making it the eighth attack since September. These more deaths in the Caribbean in recent weeks add up to a total of at least 34 victims. “There were two narcoterrorists aboard…
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