The US military says it killed four people after striking a small vessel in the eastern Pacific on December 18, marking the latest lethal action in Washington’s expanding campaign against Venezuela-linked targets. US Southern Command said the boat was destroyed because it was operating along a suspected drug trafficking route, but provided no public evidence to support the claim.
The strike follows a series of similar attacks since September that have left nearly 100 people dead across the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. Legal experts warn the pattern looks like a campaign of killings in international waters, even as the White House insists the operations are aimed at stopping drugs.
Both the legality and brutality of the US attacks has been questioned. In September, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly gave a verbal order to “leave no survivors” during a strike on a boat. After an initial missile set the vessel ablaze off the coast of
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