The Trump administration is attacking boats in the Caribbean Sea with such frequency that it may blow up another between the publication of this article and your reading of it. The administration has so far failed to produce any hard evidence behind its allegations that the seven speedboats destroyed by U.S. airstrikes were carrying narcotics. As of October 21, reports indicate that 32 people have…
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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee has called for a hearing on the Trump administration’s strikes in the Caribbean after the White House officially escalated its aggression to target Colombia as well as Venezuela, completely bypassing Congress. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington) said in a statement that, over a month after the strikes first began, the Trump administration has…
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The United States carried out another deadly attack on a boat it claimed was being used by a left-wing Colombian revolutionary group to transport drugs in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump alleged without evidence that Columbia’s president “is an illegal drug dealer.” Hegseth said the strike, which took place on Friday…
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At least one of the U.S. military’s strikes in the Caribbean last month targeted a boat carrying Colombian nationals, new reporting reveals, potentially signalling that President Donald Trump’s military actions in the region have a wider scope than has been previously reported. CNN reports that the strike on September 19, the third of the five publicly announced strikes in the Caribbean…
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