The Southern Command of the United States Army (Southcom) announced the killing of four men on board a boat that was bombed on Thursday in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, as part of an operation supposedly directed against drug trafficking that since last September has claimed the lives of more than 80 people in this ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
“On December 4 (…) the Joint Task Force Lanza del Sur carried out a deadly kinetic attack against a ship in international waters operated by a designated terrorist organization,” he said on the social media network
As on other occasions, the military justified the action ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claiming that US intelligence had “confirmed” that the ship targeted was transporting “illicit drugs and was transiting a known drug trafficking route in the eastern Pacific Ocean.”
The Pentagon chief said earlier this week that they had “barely begun” attacks against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific which, according to his information, had already accumulated, before this latest bombing, 82 confirmed deaths in 21 operations.
Post this Video of a new attack on a boat It is supposed to be linked to drug smuggling in the eastern Pacific Ocean amid controversy in the Senate about the legality of these Trump administration military operations against ships of this type and their crews.
Pete HegsethWhich became at the center of the media storm after the Washington Post revealed that US forces in September ordered a second attack on a ship in the Caribbean Sea to eliminate two survivors of the first shot.
On the same Thursday, Adm. Frank Bradley appeared at a closed-door meeting with the Senate Armed Services Committee investigating the legality of President Donald Trump’s anti-drug campaign’s military actions.
Trump confirmed this week that they are preparing to begin operations on Venezuelan territory to eliminate targets linked to drug trafficking.
The Trump campaign has left at least as close as Venezuela and Colombia 80 dead It has sparked legal claims over possible human rights violations, such as the lawsuit before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, brought by the lawyer of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, over the possible extrajudicial execution of a fisherman in the Pacific Ocean during a US operation.