USA.- The US kills three people in a second attack against an alleged drug boat in the Pacific
Trump and Rubio defend the legitimacy of the bombings without giving signs of ending the military campaign
MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, announced in the last hours of this Wednesday that the Armed Forces have carried out a new attack against another alleged drug boat in the Pacific, killing its three crew members, after announcing hours earlier a similar operation carried out the day before against another boat and killing two other people.
“Today, under the direction of (American President Donald) Trump, the War Department – the name by which this Administration identifies the Pentagon – has carried out another lethal kinetic attack against a ship operated by a designated terrorist organization,” Hegseth declared in a publication on the social network Eastern Pacific”.
The “three male narcoterrorists (who) were on board during the attack, which took place in international waters,” have died in the operation. “Our intelligence was aware that the ship was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting a known drug trafficking route and was transporting narcotics,” he alleged.
“They are not simple drug traffickers, but narcoterrorists who sow death and destruction in our cities,” argued the Secretary of Defense, who compared those killed in the attack to Al Qaeda. “They will not escape justice. We will find them and eliminate them until the threat to the American people is extinguished,” he said after promising that “these attacks will continue, day after day.”
TRUMP AND RUBIO DEFEND ATTACKS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS
Hegseth’s announcement came just a few hours after Trump defended the attacks by his Armed Forces against vessels that supposedly transport drugs to the North American country, claiming that “it is a national security problem.”
“They killed 300,000 people last year, with the entry of drugs,” said Trump, who has defended that this situation gives his Government “legal authority” to undertake this type of attacks. He then stressed that the attack occurred “in international waters” and that, if they did not follow this strategy, the United States “will lose hundreds of thousands of people.”
However, despite the fact that Hegseth has indicated that the attacks in international waters will continue “day after day”, the White House tenant has assured that, from now on, drug trafficking will arrive “a little more by land, because they no longer come by boat”, because, as he has defended, the US authorities “recognize the boats almost immediately.” “It is quite unusual to see someone with a fishing rod and five motors on the stern of the boat; you don’t need that to go fishing,” he added.
“We will attack them very hard when they arrive by land,” he declared, referring to drug traffickers who hypothetically try to enter the United States by land. “They haven’t experienced that, but now we are fully prepared to do it,” Trump said.
His statements came within the framework of a meeting with the press in the Oval Office of the White House in which both Hegseth and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, have also been present, who has redoubled the defense of the government’s strategy, pointing out that, “if people want to stop seeing ships loaded with drugs explode, they should stop sending drugs to the United States.”
“They are people who travel through international waters towards the United States with hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous and deadly drugs,” described the head of Washington’s diplomacy in his account of the events, stressing that those involved “are going to be detained and that is what is happening.”
In this sense, Rubio has assured that the US authorities “know what these ships are.” “We track them from the beginning. We know who is on board them, who they are, where they come from and what they have on them. So, if you operate ships with drugs, you are in serious danger,” he concluded.
Since September, the United States has destroyed eight vessels that were supposedly transporting drugs through international waters, leaving around thirty people dead. Furthermore, the latest two attacks appear to mark an expansion of the military campaign, as previous bombings targeted vessels in the Caribbean.
