US EditionEvery Venezuelan Drug Boat Leads to 25,000 Deaths, Trump Claims
The Trump administration conducted at least three lethal strikes against suspected Venezuelan drug boats, treating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under military authority.
- On Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico, President Donald Trump framed lethal strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats as part of an ongoing counter-narcotics campaign, while reports say the administration is considering strikes inside Venezuela.
- The administration points to legal authorities such as Article 2 when citing the U.S. Department of State’s designation of Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization and invoking the post‑9/11 war on terror legal framework.
- At least three strikes were posted by Trump, including the Sept. 2 strike that killed 11 and later strikes on Sept. 15 and Sept. 19 that killed three each, while officials said the first vessel could have been intercepted but was destroyed instead.
- Critics pointed to civilian casualties and said legal experts and some lawmakers condemned the strikes as potentially illegal extrajudicial killings, noting Daniel Byman said, 'There were innocent people who died.'
- Criminologists warn the operations may push traffickers ashore and scholars caution lethal strikes sacrifice intelligence from arrests, risking shifts by criminal groups and cartel networks that increase violence for regional communities.
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President Donald Trump said he will analyze launching attacks against drug cartels on land to the United States after boasting the Pentagon’s bombing of boats in the Caribbean from Venezuela that are allegedly linked to drug trafficking. In an exchange with journalists at the White House before heading for Quantico’s military base in Virginia, Trump was questioned about the attacks on motorboats in the Caribbean and was there that he mentioned t…
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The administration's approach to drug cartels relies — at least in part — on a blueprint for military strikes that mirror those waged during the global war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
With ‘drug boat’ strikes, Trump leans into war on terror tactic against cartels
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