"The strikes are usually announced in a brief message on social media, accompanied by a video showing a boat exploding. The message includes the number of people killed and claims that the sunken vessel belonged to a drug trafficking organization and was carrying drugs. It does not identify the victims, the type of narcotic allegedly on board, or the cartel that supposedly organized the voyage."
"The Donald Trump administration has provided limited details about each of these attacks. Although the U.S. government maintains that this type of attack is perfectly legal and an appropriate response to cartels included on its list of foreign terrorist organizations, numerous experts and various lawmakers most of them from the opposition Democratic Party believe they constitute extrajudicial executions that violate international law and U.S. law."
Two families in Trinidad and Tobago filed a lawsuit in Washington after two relatives died when a U.S. attack struck an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean on October 14. The suit is the first in U.S. courts challenging the anti-drug campaign used to pressure Venezuela and that culminated in a January 3 operation capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The lawsuit says Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, from Las Cuevas were returning from Venezuela when their boat was hit, killing them and four others. The administration announced strikes briefly on social media with videos and claims about traffickers, without identifying victims, narcotic types, or cartels. The U.S. government asserts the attacks are legal responses to cartels listed as foreign terrorist organizations, while experts and many Democratic lawmakers say the strikes amount to extrajudicial executions violating international and U.S. law.
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