WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. army mentioned Friday that it has carried out one other deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking medication within the Caribbean Sea.
U.S. Southern Command mentioned on social media that the boat “was transiting alongside identified narco-trafficking routes within the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.” It mentioned the strike killed three folks. A video linked to the put up reveals a ship shifting via the water earlier than exploding in flames.
Friday’s assault raises the loss of life toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats to 133 folks in a minimum of 38 assaults carried out since early September within the Caribbean Sea and jap Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth declared final week that “some prime cartel drug-traffickers” within the area “have determined to stop all narcotics operations INDEFINITELY attributable to current (extremely efficient) kinetic strikes within the Caribbean.” Nonetheless, Hegseth didn’t present any particulars or info to again up this declare, made in a put up on his private account on social media.
President Donald Trump has mentioned the U.S. is in “armed battle” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a obligatory escalation to stem the move of medicine. However his administration has supplied little proof to help its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”
