(Washington) The American army carried out a new strike on Saturday against a suspected drug trafficker boat in the Caribbean, killing its three occupants, announced Defense Minister Pete Hegseth.
“This vessel, like ALL OTHERS, was known to our intelligence services to be involved in illicit drug trafficking, it was transiting a known drug trafficking route and carrying narcotics,” Mr. Hegseth said on X.
“Three male narco-terrorists were on board the vessel during the strike, which was carried out in international waters. The three terrorists were killed and no members of the American forces were injured,” he added.
Since the beginning of September, the United States has been carrying out air strikes in the Pacific and especially in the Caribbean against boats it presents as belonging to drug traffickers.
Before Saturday’s strike, the Trump government had claimed responsibility for 15 attacks in recent weeks, killing 62 people, according to it, without providing proof of links between these people and drug trafficking.
Experts have questioned the legality of strikes in foreign or international waters, against suspects who have not been intercepted or questioned.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Friday the United States to cease these operations, calling for “rapid, independent and transparent” investigations.
The American president justifies this deployment in the name of the armed conflict against gangs classified as “terrorist”.
Donald Trump accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of being part of a cartel. The latter denies and denounces attempts to destabilize his power by the United States.
