by Marjorie Cohn | Oct 30, 2025 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, Drug War, extrajudicial killing, News Analysis, Organization of American States, Regime Change, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, UN Charter, Venezuela, war on drugs
As the Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats on the high seas and mounts the largest U.S. military buildup in decades in the Caribbean, it is moving inexorably toward an all-out, illegal attack and forcible regime change in Venezuela. Despite Team Trump’s feeble attempts to legally justify its ocean strikes, which have now killed 57 people since early September…
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by Sharon Zhang | Oct 23, 2025 | Boat Strikes, Colombia, Donald Trump, Drug War, Ecuador, News, Pete Hegseth, Venezuela, War On Terror
The U.S. bombed two boats in the Pacific Ocean in two days, the Trump administration announced this week, in a major escalation of the U.S.’s aggression as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed that the “strikes will continue, day after day.” Hegseth announced both strikes in nearly identical posts on X on Wednesday, bringing the total number of publicly announced attacks to nine.
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by Amy Goodman | Oct 23, 2025 | Caribbean, CIA, Colombia, Donald Trump, Drug War, International Law, Interview, Latin America, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Trump Administration, Venezuela, War, war on drugs
Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed “drug boats” in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country’s ambassador, Daniel García-Peña. “Even if they were in fact carrying drugs…
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