The United States Government published this Thursday a video of a new attack against a boat supposedly linked to drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific, amid controversy in the Senate over the legality of the Trump Administration’s military operations against ships of this type and their crews.
Since September, the Trump administration has relentlessly attacked ships in the Caribbean and Pacific suspected of being used by “narcoterrorists” to export illicit narcotics to the United States. without showing evidence, killing at least 84 people in more than 20 attacks.
This attack was announced by the Southern Command in its official X account and presented as part of the operations of the “Southern Spear” offensive and would have been carried out on December 4.
The publication states that the order for the attack was given by Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who is under the media spotlight, after the Washington Post revealed that in September US forces ordered a second attack against a ship in the Caribbean to eliminate two survivors who were on board.
The new mission occurred in the Eastern Pacific and ended the lives of four men who crewed the vessel. and the armed forces have not provided details of the criminal organization that allegedly operated the boat.
In the midst of the debate over these attacks, Admiral Frank Bradley sympathized in a closed-door meeting with the Senate Armed Forces Committee that is investigating the legality of the military actions of President Donald Trump’s anti-drug campaign.
Trump’s campaign near Venezuela and Colombia has left at least 84 dead and filed legal actions for possible human rights violationssuch as the lawsuit before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the Colombian president’s lawyer, Gustavo Petro, presented for the possible extrajudicial execution of a fisherman in the Pacific during one of the US operations.
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