The United States Armed Forces claimed to have killed two men in a new attack on a boat carrying drugs in international waters of the Pacific Ocean this Monday (29).
“Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a deadly attack on a vessel operated by terrorist organizations in international waters,” the U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X. No members of the U.S. team were injured during the operation, according to the military.
The attack comes the same day President Donald Trump said the United States had struck a port area in Venezuela where he said drugs were being loaded onto ships. If confirmed, this action would be the first American attack on Venezuelan soil since tensions between the two countries began in August, against the backdrop of an American military offensive in the waters of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Since the beginning of September, the American army, under the command of Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, has targeted suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific, destroying, with this new attack, at least 28 ships and killing at least 101 people.
The attacks were accompanied by a massive US military deployment in the Caribbean, which includes the world’s largest aircraft carrier and a number of other warships.
Trump reaffirms that the goal is to fight drug trafficking, while Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro says it is a pretext for regime change in Caracas.
Since the start of the month, the United States has seized two ships carrying Venezuelan oil. Trump announced about two weeks ago a “total blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela.
If the measures are repeated, the consequence could be the suffocation of the Venezuelan economy. The country has the largest oil reserves in the world and its economy depends on exports of this product.
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