A boat potentially linked to drug trafficking was destroyed on Monday by an airstrike, as part of the war waged by Donald Trump against “narco-terrorists.”
The American military announced on Monday that it had killed three people suspected of transporting drugs during an airstrike on their boat in the Caribbean Sea.
With this new strike on Monday, announced via video support on the social network X by the American military command for Latin America and the Caribbean, at least 150 people have been killed since these operations, praised by Donald Trump, began last September. “The ship was traveling on known drug trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in drug trafficking operations,” according to this publication.
In the accompanying video, a boat can be seen being bombed. “Three men, narco-terrorists, were killed in this operation,” added the American military command.
A contested legality
Since returning to power, American President Donald Trump has claimed that the United States is waging a war against “narco-terrorists.” The legality of this campaign, officially targeting South American cartels fueling drug trafficking to the United States, has sparked a lively debate on its legality, with experts and UN officials denouncing extrajudicial executions.
It is also in the name of the fight against drug cartels that American forces abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in early January in Caracas.
