by Amy Goodman | Aug 1, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, Ecuador, Interview, Latin America, Pentagon, Trump Administration
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passengers to drug trafficking. Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman in the city of Manta. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in…
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by Julia Conley | Jun 19, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, Drug War, Latin America, News, Pete Hegseth, Trump Administration
As US senators pushed the Department of Defense to release unedited footage of the boat bombings the Trump administration has carried out in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September, US Southern Command on Thursday announced that it had killed three more people in the operation that some international law experts have said amounts to mass murder and an extrajudicial killing spree.
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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 Alexander Main | Mar 6, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, China, cuba, Daniel Noboa, Donald Trump, Ecuador, Interventionism, Javier Milei, Latin America, Marco Rubio, Nasry Asfura, Nicolás Maduro, Op-Ed, Trump Administration, Venezuela
For nearly three years the Dominican Republic had been excitedly preparing to host the region’s biggest multilateral event: the 2025 Summit of the Americas, bringing together the leaders of nearly every government in the Western Hemisphere. But on November 3rd, only a month before the summit was to take place, the DR’s foreign ministry abruptly announced the postponement of the event citing…
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by Jessica Corbett | Dec 25, 2025 | Boat Strikes, Caribbean, News, Pete Hegseth, Trump Administration, Venezuela, war on drugs
The journalist who initially revealed that President Donald Trump’s administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea. Just days after Trump announced the September 2…
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by Amy Goodman | Dec 17, 2025 | Argentina, Blockade, Boat Strikes, brazil, Caribbean, chile, Colombia, cuba, Donald Trump, Drug War, Honduras, Interview, Latin America, Maduro, Marco Rubio, mexico, Nicolás Maduro, Oil, Pete Hegseth, Regime Change, Sanctions, Trump Administration, US Military, Venezuela, Venezuelan oil reserves, war on drugs
President Trump has ordered what he called a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the United States escalates pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region and days after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. Since September, the U.S.
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