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The latest U.S. subject onslaught connected a vessel accused of ferrying drugs successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean killed 3 radical Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command.
The Trump administration's run of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels successful Latin American waters has gone connected since aboriginal September and killed astatine slightest 186 radical successful total. Other strikes person taken spot successful the Caribbean Sea.
The subject has not provided grounds that immoderate of the vessels were carrying drugs.
When asked astir a erstwhile onslaught successful the eastbound Pacific that killed 2 men, a spokesperson for U.S. Southern Command told CBS News: "For operational information reasons, we cannot sermon circumstantial sources oregon methods."
After Sunday's attack, Southern Command posted a video connected X showing a vessel moving swiftly successful the h2o earlier an detonation near it successful flames. It repeated erstwhile statements by saying it had targeted the alleged cause traffickers on known smuggling routes.
The attacks began arsenic the U.S. built up its largest subject beingness successful the portion successful generations and came months up of the raid successful January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to look cause trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.
The run has ramped up again successful caller weeks, with astatine slightest 8 vessel strikes successful the Caribbean and eastbound Pacific truthful acold this month.
President Trump has said the U.S. is successful "armed conflict" with cartels successful Latin America and has justified the attacks arsenic a indispensable escalation to stem the travel of drugs into the United States.
Critics, meanwhile, person questioned the wide legality of the vessel strikes.
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