The US military announced on Thursday that in another attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, two people lost their lives, whom she described as drug smugglers. The number of victims of US strikes on ships allegedly carrying narcotics increased to at least 128 since September last year, AFP reported.
- The US military continues to attack ships suspected of drug smuggling.
- Two smugglers died in the latest attack in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
- At least 128 people have been killed in attacks since September last year.
- The legality of these interventions by the US military is subject to criticism.
- The families of the Trinidad and Tobago victims filed a lawsuit against the US government.
Attacks against vessels in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean began to be carried out by the administration of US President Donald Trump at the beginning of September. She refers to these ships as drug smugglers, but she has not yet presented any clear evidence to support her claim. Critics therefore question the legality of the interventions.
“Intelligence has confirmed that the ship was sailing along known drug smuggling routes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and was involved in drug activity. Two narco-terrorists were killed in this action. American military forces suffered no casualties,” reads a statement from the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) posted on the X Network.
The latest strike is the second known attack since the US military intervention in Venezuela, in which US special forces captured President Nicolás Maduro in early January and transported him to the US. Washington says Maduro, his wife and other Venezuelan officials are responsible for “narco-terrorism”, drug trafficking and other crimes. At the end of January, two people were killed in another strike by the US military in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean, whom the US identified as drug smugglers.
Last week, the relatives of two men from Trinidad and Tobago who died in one of the US attacks decided to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the US government. It is the first case of its kind filed against the Trump administration over operations in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
