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Donald Trump administration has made another allegation medicine shipIn what appears to be the first attack in the Pacific Ocean, two people on board are killed.
The death toll from Tuesday’s operation has been announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. administration campaign More than 30, because the United States has declared itself at war with drug cartels Expansion of military operations throughout South America.
According to Hegseth, “According to our intelligence the ship was known to be involved in illegal drug trafficking, it was transiting along a known drug-trafficking transit route and was carrying narcotics.”
Two “narco-terrorists” killed in attack coast of colombiahe said on Wednesday.
The latest attack – believed to be the eighth since September – raises the death toll from attacks by the administration to at least 34 people, which Hegseth has compared to the terrorist group behind 9/11.
“Narco-terrorists intent on bringing poison to our shores will find no safe haven anywhere in our hemisphere,” Hegseth said. “Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people. There will be no asylum or amnesty – only justice.”
Authorities did not immediately identify the group or country accused of running drugs into the Pacific.
Critics have argued the campaign This is tantamount to illegal extrajudicial killingsWhile members of Congress and civil rights groups are pressing the administration for evidence justifying the attacks and for legal memos shared among White House officials.
There were two survivors of a recent attack in the Caribbean Sent to their home countries, Ecuador and Colombia, After Trump praised the destruction of a “very large drug-carrying submarine”.
The apparent repatriation of those labeled “terrorists” by the government – rather than facing prosecution in the United States – also raises additional legal questions about the operation, including whether survivors should be treated as prisoners of war or transferred to military or criminal authorities for prosecution.
Ecuadorian officials said there have been “no reports of any crimes” against the Ecuadorian survivor, who is not being detained. The Colombian man who survived the attack remains hospitalized after returning home but is expected to stand trial.
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said the US strike in September targeted a civilian boat in distress – not a drug-smuggling boat. And accused Trump of “murder.”
Trump, on his Truth Social, called Petro “an illegal drug leader” and accused his government of “snapping” American aid.
Most of the cocaine smuggled into the United States comes from the Pacific Ocean, but the Trump administration has focused its attacks largely on Venezuela and the Caribbean coast in an apparent military-led campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Last week Trump said that he had authorized the CIA for this conduct covert operations inside Venezuelawhich represents a significant increase in aggressive campaign Against Maduro’s regime and drug cartels, which Trump claims are fueled by Maduro’s government.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he “authorized” the CIA operation because Venezuela had “emptied its prisons into the United States” and flooded the country with drugs.
Last month, the administration announced that the United States is Formally engaged in “armed conflict” with drug cartels According to a classified notice to members of Congress, the President has labeled them “unlawful combatants.”
The notice appears to invoke extraordinary wartime powers to justify a series of missile attacks targeting boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the Caribbean.
Trump said defense officials were now considering a “ground strike” in Venezuela.
In January, Trump issued an executive order designating Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization, paving the way for his order. Enforce the Alien Enemies Act Summarily deporting suspected gang members. Neither the Alien Enemy Act nor the “foreign terrorist organization” designation permit lethal force.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López has accused the Trump administration of trying to “force regime change” in the country.
“I want to warn the population: We have to prepare ourselves because the irrationality with which the American empire acts is not normal,” Padrino said in televised comments this month. “It is anti-political, anti-human, anti-war, crude and obscene.”