WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy claimed on Friday that it had attacked another ship in the Caribbean Sea that was thought to be smuggling drugs and killed people.
According to U.S. Southern Command on social media, the boat "was traveling along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was involved in narco-trafficking operations." It reported that three persons died in the attack. A video that goes with the tweet shows a boat going through the ocean before it blows up in flames.
The attack on Friday brought the number of individuals killed in the Trump administration's attacks on suspected drug vessels to 133. These attacks have happened in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since early September.
Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that "some top cartel drug-traffickers" in the area "have decided to cease all narcotics operations INDEFINITELY due to recent (highly effective) kinetic strikes in the Caribbean." Hegseth, on the other hand, didn't give any proof or specifics to back up this assertion, which he made on his own social media account.
President Donald Trump has declared that the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels in Latin America and that the attacks are vital to stop the flow of drugs. But his government hasn't given much proof to back up its assertions that it killed "narcoterrorists."
