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Strike on Alleged Drug Boat Kills 3 in Caribbean Sea, U.S. Military Says
The campaign has killed at least 181 people since September, and the military has not provided evidence the targeted boats carried drugs.
- On Sunday, Southern Command's Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing three people alleged to be operating for Designated Terrorist Organizations.
- Since early September, the campaign targeting alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has killed at least 181 people, with at least 54 vessels targeted in the operations.
- President Donald Trump justifies the attacks as a necessary "armed conflict" with cartels to stem drug flows, yet the administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing "narcoterrorists."
- SOUTHCOM has not provided evidence that vessels were carrying drugs, citing operational security reasons, while critics have questioned the overall legality of the strikes.
- Despite the Iran war, the series of strikes has ramped up, demonstrating aggressive measures to stop what the administration calls "narcoterrorism," following the largest United States military buildup in the region in generations.
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A video documentary from the moment of the explosion was also released.
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The United States has announced Sunday the attack on a boat in the Caribbean in which it has killed three people, according to a statement from the Southern Command. They accuse the boat of transiting through “known drug trafficking routes,” without specifying the site of the bombing.
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