In Third Boat Strike This Week, US Kills 3 People in 'Entirely Make-Believe' Armed Conflict Against Cartels

"The Trump administration was continuing what it claims is an effort to rid Latin American countries of drug traffickers—killing three people aboard a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean in the US military’s third boat bombing in three days."

"The US Southern Command posted a video on social media of the bombing, which it said targeted a boat that was 'transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations'...As with the 50 previous attacks on boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, the military did not publicize any evidence that the boat was carrying drugs or that its passengers were 'narco-terrorists.' "

"Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America has compared the boat bombings, assuming they have targeted people involved in the drug trade at all, to 'straight-up massacring 16-year-old drug dealers on US street corners.' "

"On Wednesday, Isacson noted that while Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have defended the boat bombings as attacks that will protect Americans from the flow of drugs like cocaine and fentanyl into the US—with the president informing Congress that the White House views the country as being in an 'armed conflict' with drug cartels—data from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows little evidence that the strikes are stopping drugs from reaching the US."

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