The United States Armed Forces announced this Wednesday (17) that they had carried out a new attack on a boat allegedly used for drug trafficking in Pacific waters, killing four people.
“Intelligence has confirmed that the vessel was transiting a known drug trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and conducting drug smuggling operations,” a post from U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) on the social network X said.
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“In total, four male narcoterrorists were killed, while American forces were unharmed,” the text added. On social media, a video shows what the attack would look like (see below).
Since the start of the campaign against drug trafficking in September, the United States has carried out more than 25 such attacks, which have left at least 99 people dead.
President Donald Trump’s government accuses Nicolás Maduro of running a drug trafficking network, which the Venezuelan president denies.
On Tuesday, Trump took another step in escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas, ordering a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil tankers” leaving or heading to Venezuela.
U.S. military deployment in the region “will only increase” until Venezuela returns “to the United States of America all the oil, land and other property that it previously stole from us,” he added, while remaining vague on a possible ground intervention in Venezuela.
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