"The United States' campaign of extrajudicial military attacks against alleged drug trafficking speedboats continues unabated. On Friday, the Pentagon announced a new strike against one of these vessels in international waters in the Caribbean, in which six people were killed. It is the first such strike in the Caribbean since Washington confirmed two attacks in the Pacific on Wednesday, which also brought the U.S. military campaign against the cartels in the Americas to those waters."
"After months of repeatedly attacking Venezuela and its president, Nicolas Maduro, the Republican has now set his sights on Colombia and President Gustavo Petro, whom he has called a thug. Meanwhile, he insists that the next phase of his campaign will involve ground operations that are already imminent, although he has not specified how or where these would take place."
The Pentagon announced a nighttime strike on an alleged drug-trafficking speedboat in international Caribbean waters that killed six people. The strike was the first in the Caribbean and followed two earlier operations in the Pacific that extended U.S. military action against cartels into those waters. President Donald Trump escalated rhetoric accusing Latin American governments of complacency or links to cartels and targeted Colombia and President Gustavo Petro. The United States labeled Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization and identified the struck vessel as part of a Tren de Aragua operation, transiting a known narco-trafficking route and carrying narcotics. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted the announcement on social media.
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