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The U.S. subject said it launched another strike connected a vessel it accused of ferrying drugs successful the Caribbean Sea, sidesplitting 3 radical Sunday.
The Trump administration's run of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels successful Latin American waters has persisted since aboriginal September and killed astatine slightest 181 radical successful total. Other strikes person taken spot successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean. At slightest 54 vessels person been targeted successful the campaign.
Despite the Iran war, the bid of strikes has ramped up again successful the past week oregon so, showing that the administration's assertive measures to halt what it calls "narcoterrorism" successful the Western Hemisphere are not letting up. The subject has not provided grounds that immoderate of the vessels were carrying drugs.
A spokesperson for U.S. Southern Command has antecedently told CBS News: "For operational information reasons, we cannot sermon circumstantial sources oregon methods."
The attacks began arsenic the U.S. built up its largest subject beingness successful the portion successful generations and came months up of the raid successful January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to look cause trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.
In the latest onslaught Sunday, U.S. Southern Command repeated erstwhile statements by saying it had targeted the alleged cause traffickers on known smuggling routes. It posted a video connected X showing a vessel moving on the h2o earlier a monolithic detonation engulfed the vas successful flames.
President Trump has said the U.S. is successful "armed conflict" with cartels successful Latin America and has justified the attacks arsenic a indispensable escalation to stem the travel of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his medication has offered small grounds to enactment its claims of sidesplitting "narcoterrorists."
Critics, meanwhile, person questioned the wide legality of the vessel strikes.
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