ALBAWABA - On September 20, Reuters reported from Washington that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, said that American troops killed three people in an airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean. He said the boat was carrying drugs and was linked to a "terrorist organization."
On Friday, Trump announced the strike on his Truth Social platform. He posted video of a fast boat in the crosshairs before it blew up. He said that intelligence showed the ship was carrying drugs through a well-known trafficking route "on its way to poison Americans."
It wasn't clear if the operation was new or connected to the strikes Trump talked about this month. On Tuesday, he told reporters that U.S. forces had destroyed three boats, but before that, he had only said two. In earlier comments, he had said that the attacks happened near Venezuela, where Washington has sent warships and a nuclear submarine to stop drug traffickers.
The United Nations' human rights experts have spoken out against the recent strikes, calling them violations of international law. They have also questioned the legality of targeted killings for alleged drug trafficking, which is not punishable by death under U.S. law.
The strikes have made things even worse between the two countries. Caracas said that Washington was using anti-drug operations as a cover for trying to change the government. This happened after the U.S. sent eight warships, a submarine, and ten fighter jets to the southern Caribbean earlier this month. Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, called the military buildup "the biggest threat in a century."
