The US military announced the destruction of two more suspected drug boats in an attack which left five dead and which is the second of its kind in just two days as part of its campaign to fight against … drug trafficking in waters near Colombia and Venezuela and put pressure on the government of Nicolas Maduro.
The attack was carried out December 31as reported by the United States Southern Command in an X-shaped message in which the geographical area in which the bombing took place is not specified.
The message is limited to saying that the attack was carried out “against two vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations” and that American intelligence “confirmed that they were using known drug trafficking routes” and that they were participating in this type of activity.
“In total, five narcoterrorists died during these actions: three in the first boat and two in the second», concludes the text, accompanied, as usual, by video images of the attacks. The images, lasting just 21 seconds, show the attack on the two boats.
The announcement comes just hours after Southern Command, which leads Operation Southern Spear, announced that had destroyed three other boats on December 30 and had killed at least two of its occupants.
As during the operation carried out on December 31, the American armed forces did not explain whether the attack took place in the southern Caribbean or the eastern Pacificboth scenarios in which Washington has already summarily destroyed nearly 40 suspected drug boats and killed nearly 110 people since last September.
Since the summer, the Pentagon has maintained a military deployment unprecedented in decades in the southern Caribbean while Washington warns that its objective is that Maduro and his lieutenants, whom it accuses of leading a narco-state, give up power.
At the same time, the government of Donald Trump has begun to assert in recent weeks that Chavismo stole the facilities and assets of oil companies Americans in Venezuela and announced that it would confiscate tankers carrying crude oil from the Caribbean country, something it has already done twice.
Added to all this is the attack, announced enigmatically by Trump this week, on a dock on the Venezuelan coast which would be used by the Tren de Aragua criminal gang and which would mean the first bombing on a target in Venezuelan territory by Washington.
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