(Washington) Five suspected “narcoterrorists” were killed in two American strikes against ships in international waters of the Pacific Ocean, the United States Southern Military Command announced Thursday.
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“The vessels were transiting along known drug trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were involved in drug trafficking operations. In total, five male narcoterrorists were killed during these operations, three in the first ship and two in the second,” the military command wrote on the social network X.
These operations targeting ships accused of being used for drug trafficking in the Caribbean or the eastern Pacific have caused at least 104 deaths since September, according to an AFP count based on information from the authorities.
The administration of American President Donald Trump has provided no proof that these boats were actually involved in any trafficking, opening a lively debate in the world, and in American political circles, on the legal legitimacy of the operations.
Donald Trump’s government notably accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, its pet peeve, of being at the head of a drug trafficking network, which the person concerned denies.
