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fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks agoThis wild-looking drone hunting drug runners at night helped the US Coast Guard seize a record-breaking cocaine haul
Coast Guard cutter Stone offloaded over 49,000 pounds of cocaine (about $362 million) after 15 eastern Pacific interdictions aided by a vertical takeoff reconnaissance drone.
US politics
fromTruthout
3 weeks agoDemocrats Move to Block Trump's "Wildly Disproportionate" Boat Strike Operation
House Democrats introduced a War Powers Resolution to block Trump administration boat strikes and demand removal of military actions seen as disproportionate and warlike without a credible rationale.
US politics
fromFortune
3 weeks agoThe Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine - while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats | Fortune
The Trump administration replaced decades-long maritime interdiction policy by authorizing military strikes that destroyed suspected drug boats, causing deaths and provoking international criticism.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks agoUS escalates its campaign against narco-terrorism' in Latin America with the launch of Operation Southern Spear
The U.S. Defense Secretary announced Operation Southern Spear, a military campaign led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear to remove narco-terrorists in the Western Hemisphere.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoThe US is sending a strike group led by the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier to support Trump's new drug war
A significant amount of additional firepower is being sent to support President Donald Trump's new drug war. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, led by the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier, and its embarked carrier air wing will be diverted from the Mediterranean to the US Southern Command area of responsibility, according to a Friday Pentagon statement. The move marks a notable expansion of US military forces in the region.
US politics
US politics
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1 month agoJUST IN: Hegseth Sending Aircraft Carrier to Latin America's Coast in Major Escalation'
The U.S. is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford to Latin America to strengthen detection, disruption, and dismantling of narcotics trafficking and Transnational Criminal Organizations.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoColombia recalls US ambassador amid spat with Trump over strikes on alleged drug boats
Colombia has recalled its ambassador to Washington amid a furious war of words between Colombian president Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump over deadly US strikes on boats in the Caribbean. The row took a sharp turn this weekend when Petro accused the US of murdering a Colombian fisher in an attack on a vessel in its territorial waters. Petro and his administration said the mid-September strike was a direct threat to national sovereignty and that the victim was a lifelong fisherman and a humble
World news
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fromBusiness Insider
3 months agoBy blowing up a suspected cartel boat, the US signaled it's bringing War on Terror tactics to the drug war
The US conducted a lethal airstrike in the Caribbean against a Venezuelan-linked drug vessel, shifting to counterterrorism-style tactics against drug cartels.
fromThe Washington Post
3 months agoU.S. sends 8 warships south on anti-cartel mission, unsettling Venezuela
The U.S. Navy is surging eight warships to the Caribbean and Pacific waters near several Central and South American countries, a significant buildup for a region that has rarely seensuch a large presence of U.S. military vessels and a move that has escalated tensions with nearby Venezuela. The ships are part of an "enhanced counter narcotics operation" to carry out drug interdiction missions in Latin America, a defense official told The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity, to provide details
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