A boat potentially linked to drug trafficking was destroyed on Monday by an airstrike as part of Donald Trump’s war against “narco-terrorists.”
The US military announced on Monday that it had killed three people suspected of trafficking drugs in an airstrike on their boat in the Caribbean Sea.
With this latest strike on Monday, announced via a video shared on the social network X by the US military command for Latin America and the Caribbean, at least 150 people have been killed since these operations, promoted by Donald Trump, began last September. “The ship was using known drug trafficking routes in the Caribbean and engaging in drug trafficking operations,” according to the publication.
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In the accompanying video, a boat is seen being bombed. “Three men, narco-terrorists, were killed in this operation,” added the US military command.
Contested Legality
President Donald Trump has been claiming since his return to power that the United States is waging war against “narco-terrorists.” The legality of this campaign, officially targeting South American cartels fueling drug trafficking to the United States, is being hotly debated in terms of its legality, with experts and UN officials denouncing extrajudicial executions.
It was also in the name of the fight against drug cartels that US forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Caracas in early January.
