US forces hit another vessel accused of drug trafficking in the Caribbean, killing three people. This was made known by the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. With this attack, the death toll from Washington’s controversial anti-drug campaign rises to at least 70.
Hegseth released aerial footage of the attack on X, which took place in international waters like the previous ones, and which targeted “a vessel operated by a terrorist organisation”. US strikes have so far destroyed at least 18 vessels but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets were smuggling drugs or posed a direct threat to the United States. «To all the narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: if you want to survive, stop trafficking drugs. If you continue to traffic lethal drugs, we will kill you”, wrote Hegseth on
The Trump administration has concentrated considerable forces in Latin America in what it calls its campaign to eradicate drug trafficking. So far it has deployed six Navy ships to the Caribbean, sent F-35 stealth warplanes to Puerto Rico and ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group to the region.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has repeatedly accused Trump of wanting to remove him while families of victims of the attacks have said many of those killed in the raids were civilians, mostly fishermen.
