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Washington.- The United States announced this Sunday that it destroyed another vessel that allegedly transported drugs in the Pacific Ocean, an attack in which three men on board died, whom it described as "narco-terrorists", without detailing their nationality.
The attack occurred on Saturday and is part of Operation South Lance, 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 the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear carried out a lethal kinetic strike against a vessel operated by a terrorist organization," reported the U.S. Army Southern Command on social media.You can read: US deploys its most advanced aircraft carrier in the Caribbean amid tensions with the Maduro regime
"Three male narco-terrorists aboard the ship died. The ship was trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific and was attacked in international waters," adds the statement, which does not detail 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 major military deployment that Trump has ordered in the region. Since September, the United States has destroyed more than twenty vessels allegedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific, operations in which more than seventy individuals have died extrajudicially. These operations have raised tensions with Colombia and especially with Venezuela, given the possibility that the next step is a US ground attack on their countries.
