UNITED STATES.- This Monday the United States Southern Command announced that the Armed Forces of that country they killed three men in a new attack on a boat in it Caribbean allegedly operated by drug traffickers; This adds up to at least 150 victims since these operations began in 2025.
This Monday’s attack occurred within the framework of the Operation Southern Lancewith which the United States has bombed more than 40 ships since last September to combat drug trafficking in the Central American area, South America and the Caribbeanin addition to increasing pressure on Venezuela.
The Southern Command claimed that US forces “conducted a lethal kinetic attack on a ship operated by designated terrorist organizations.”
“Intelligence confirmed that the ship was transiting along known drug trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was involved in drug trafficking operations. Three male narcoterrorists died in this action. No United States military forces were damaged,” the agency stated on its social networks.
This new bombing comes after an operation that left three dead last Friday in the Pacific, also for alleged drug trafficking.
The United States destroys three boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean
Also last week, the US military announced the destruction of three boats linked to drug traffickingallegedly, in the Pacific and the Caribbean, in an operation that left 11 dead in total, the largest simultaneous attack since Operation Southern Spear began.
With this Monday’s attack, there would be 44 bombings and 150 deaths since these offensives began, according to counts in the American national press.
Although civil organizations, Democrats and some Republicans have called these attacks illegal, Donald Trump’s Government has argued that its actions are justified because it is in an “armed conflict” with cartels and terrorist organizations linked to drug trafficking in Latin America.
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