"A Boeing C-17 Globemaster departs from José Aponte de la Torre Airport, formerly Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, on September 12, 2025, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The Trump administration recently carried out a drone strike in the southern Caribbean against a boat that had left Venezuela. Miguel J. Rodríguez Carrillo / Getty Images With 14 people killed in the Caribbean in recent days by US forces at the direction of President Donald Trump, two Democratic senators on Friday moved to stop the Trump administration from continuing military strikes against boats that it claims are involved in drug trafficking."
"That strike followed the killing of 11 people aboard another boat in the Caribbean earlier this month, which US officials later acknowledged had turned back toward Venezuela before the US carried out the strike - further calling into question the claim that the vessel was headed toward the US and posed a threat. "President Trump has no legal authority to launch strikes or use military force in the Caribbean or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere," said Kaine in a statement, adding that the administration has refused to release basic information showing it was necessary to attack the vessels."
US forces conducted drone strikes in the southern Caribbean that killed 14 people in recent days, with officials saying the targets were boats that left Venezuela. Senators Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff introduced a joint resolution to stop military strikes not authorized by Congress. One strike killed three people whom the president described as members of "extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels." An earlier strike killed 11 people aboard a boat US officials later acknowledged had turned back toward Venezuela. Legal and human-rights experts condemned the strikes as murder and extrajudicial executions, and officials declined to release basic information justifying the attacks.
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