The vessel was sailing “a known drug trafficking route and was transporting substantial quantities of narcotics,” said US War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth, clarifying that no US soldiers were injured in the attack.
The United States government (USA) announced this Sunday that it killed three alleged drug traffickers whom it linked to the Colombian guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in a new attack against a ship in international waters.
This attack would be the seventh since Donald Trump’s administration declared an “armed conflict” against drug traffickers.
According to the Secretary of the US Department of War, Pete Hegseth, on October 17, the War Department carried out a lethal kinetic attack against a ship affiliated with the National Liberation Army (ELN), which was operating in the Southern Command area of responsibility.
The vessel was sailing “a known drug trafficking route and was transporting substantial quantities of narcotics,” Hegseth added, clarifying that no US soldiers were injured in the attack, which took place in international waters.
The US official shared a video showing the moment the ship was bombed, and compared the posters to Al Qaeda.
“These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people. “The US military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are: they will be hunted down and annihilated, just like Al Qaeda,” he said.
This is the latest attack carried out by US forces against an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the last month. Since then, Washington has deployed numerous forces in the Caribbean Sea under the justification of combating drug trafficking near the coast of Venezuela, which has caused growing tension between the United States and the government of Nicolás Maduro.
In this sense, Trump announced this Sunday the end of financial aid to Bogotá. And he described the Colombian president, Gustavo Prieto, as “a drug trafficking leader.”
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