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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The United States carried out a deadly attack on a second vessel suspected of drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific this Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported.
The US has been attacking boats of suspected drug traffickers for weeks. In the Caribbean, dozens of people have been killed - now the number of deaths is also increasing in the Pacific.
The United States has carried out another attack on a “drug boat” in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says. Three people are reported to have been killed. “The attacks will continue, day after day,” Hegseth writes on X.
U.S. strikes 2 more alleged drug-carrying boats, this time in Pacific Ocean
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, further expanding the Trump administration’s campaign against drug trafficking in South America.
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