The United States announced this Sunday that it destroyed another vessel that was supposedly transporting drugs in the Pacific Ocean, causing the death of three men on board whom it described as “narco-terrorists”, without detailing their nationality, in what represents a new extrajudicial execution.
The attack occurred on Saturday and is part of Operation Southern Spear, which the Donald Trump Administration is carrying out in the waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific, near Venezuela and Colombia, with the argument of combating drug trafficking.
“On November 15, by order of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Lance carried out a lethal kinetic attack against a ship operated by a terrorist organization,” the US Army’s Southern Command reported online.
“Three male narcoterrorists on board the ship died. The ship was trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific and was attacked in international waters,” added the statement, which did not specify the nationalities of the victims.
This Sunday, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest in the US fleet, arrived in the Caribbean as part of the large military deployment that Trump has ordered in the region.
Since September, the United States has destroyed more than twenty vessels supposedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific, extrajudicially killing more than 70 individuals.
These operations have raised tension with Colombia and especially with Venezuela, given the possibility that the next step will be a land invasion by the United States.
