by Brett Wilkins | May 31, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, Gustavo Petro, News, Pacific Ocean, Trump Administration
The U.S. military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three more people in what experts say is an illegal campaign whose death toll has now topped 200. U.S. Southern Command said in a statement that “Joint Task Force Southern Spear,” the nine-month campaign ordered by President Donald Trump, “conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a…
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by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli | May 31, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Colombia, Donald Trump, elections, Gustavo Castro, Latin America, Narco-trafficking, News, Trump Administration
On Sunday, Colombians will go to the polls for the first round of their presidential elections, a race that could radically reshape Colombia’s relations with the United States at a moment of political turmoil and polarization in Latin America. The key contenders include the ruling party’s candidate, Iván Cepeda; conservative outsider Abelardo De la Espriella; and Paloma Valencia of former…
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by Olivia Rosane | May 10, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, Narco-terrorism, News, Pete Hegseth, Trump Administration
The Trump administration continued its illegal bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two and leaving one survivor in its third such strike in five days. U.S. Southern Command announced the attack on social media, claiming that “intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged…
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by Jon Queally | Apr 28, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, drug trafficking, International Criminal Court, News, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth
The murder spree being conducted by the U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth climbed to an estimated 185 people on Sunday after the Pentagon announced another bombing of a boat it claims was trafficking illegal narcotics. “On April 26, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear…
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by Sharon Zhang | Apr 24, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, Iran, Militarism, News, Pentagon, Venezuela
The Trump administration’s operations in Latin America over the past seven months have cost nearly $5 billion, finds a new analysis — enough to fund Medicaid for half a million Americans for a year. Thus far, the combination of the military costs for the deadly raid of Venezuela and abduction of then-President Nicolás Maduro as well as the U.S.’s boat strike and surveillance campaign in the…
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by Julia Conley | Apr 17, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Latin America, News, Pete Hegseth, Trump Administration, US Military
As Republicans and several Democrats in the U.S. Senate gave the go-ahead for the U.S. to send more bombs and military equipment to Israel for its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon on Wednesday, 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 U.S.
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