"On Monday, President Trump announced the U.S. bombed a boat in international waters, killing three people. The attack was the second to target what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglers from Venezuela. A previous strike on another boat killed 11 people. In a third incident, the U.S. Navy raided a fishing boat in Venezuelan waters, detaining nine fishermen for eight hours."
""We have a very clear example of political theater, an attempt at provocation, an ongoing effort at regime change, and the strategy of trying to use the military to interdict drug trafficking, which has failed incredibly in Mexico, Colombia, everywhere else the U.S. has applied it," says Venezuelan historian Miguel Tinker Salas, who adds the Trump administration is "misleading the public in indicating that these were drug traffickers with no evidence whatsoever.""
U.S. forces carried out multiple maritime operations near Venezuela, including two strikes on boats in international waters and a Navy raid inside Venezuelan waters. The strikes killed a total of 14 people across two incidents and a separate raid detained nine fishermen for eight hours. U.S. officials framed the actions as targeting drug smugglers allegedly linked to Venezuela. Critics call the operations political theater and a provocation, argue there is no clear evidence tying the targeted vessels to drug trafficking, and view the actions as part of an expanded U.S. military posture in the Caribbean tied to a secret directive authorizing force.
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