US Southern Command said on Sunday night that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to carry out extra-judicial executions at sea.
SOUTHCOM said the strike killed at least two people and left six survivors, though many survivors of the initial boat strike have drowned due to slow rescue efforts.
“Following the engagement, SOUTHCOM immediately notified US Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors,” the command said in its statement on the strike.
SOUTHCOM called the victims of the attack “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration has employed in its attempts to justify executing people without trial for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US.
According to a count from The Intercept, the bombing campaign has involved at least 66 strikes and has killed 215 people, all civilians, since they were operating civilian vehicles and weren’t engaged in combat with the US at the time of their execution.
The US has continued to expand military operations across Latin America, recently launching an airstrike in Venezuela that it claims targeted and killed Guerrero Flores, the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The attack was launched in cooperation with the Venezuelan government, which has been led by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez since the US attack on the country that resulted in the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.
The Pentagon has also been building up forces for a potential attack on Cuba, which the Trump administration has been threatening for several months as it has ramped up its oil embargo on the country, causing a devastating humanitarian crisis.
