Four men presumed to be drug traffickers by the United States died on Tuesday in an American strike on their boat. Since Saturday, seven other people have died in US strikes.
Four men were killed on Tuesday, April 14th by the United States in the eastern Pacific, announced the American army, which continues its strikes on boats suspected of drug trafficking in a controversial military campaign that has resulted in at least 174 deaths, including 11 in the past few days.
The American military command for Latin America and the Caribbean (Southcom) stated in a message on X that the ship targeted on Tuesday “was engaged in narcotics trafficking operations.” “Four male narcoterrorists were killed during this operation.”
A similar strike had already killed two people on Monday, and two other shootings had killed five men on Saturday.
“Extrajudicial executions”
For several months, Washington has been conducting a campaign of strikes in the Pacific and the Caribbean against ships identified as participating in drug trafficking activities feeding the United States.
The administration of Donald Trump has never provided solid evidence to assert that the targeted ships were actually involved in trafficking. Experts and UN officials have denounced extrajudicial executions.
