The US carried out a new “lethal kinetic attack” against a ship in the Pacific, which, according to what they indicate, was transporting drugs. As a result of the attack, three men on board died.
The Southern Command reported this Sunday that the attack was carried out on November 15 by order of Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting a known drug trafficking route and was transporting narcotics,” the statement said.
“The vessel was trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific and was hit in international waters,” the official text added.
Previously, this week, Washington reported on several attacks against small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific that add to the series of attacks carried out by the US in recent months as part of an alleged campaign against drug trafficking. The most recent attacks were carried out on November 9 and 10.
These operations have been described as “extrajudicial executions” by various human rights organizations and experts in international law, as they were carried out without trials, without judicial supervision and outside any mandate of the United Nations (UN).
Furthermore, since the operations began, with the announcement of the first attack in the Caribbean on September 2, the US authorities have only limited themselves to disseminating the recordings of the bombings, without showing the cargo they were supposedly transporting, since the boats were destroyed. However, in the second attack, Trump told the press that he had “proof” that the boat was carrying drugs to the United States.
Earlier, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, spoke out this Sunday in favor of a multilateral meetingin which the authorities of the United States, China, Mexico and Colombia would participate, and which he considers, Ecuador, Chile and Australia should also join, whose objective would be to “analyze a treaty towards a Pacific without illegalities.”
The statement by the Colombian president arises regarding the military escalation that the Trump administration maintains in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
“Threatening the Caribbean, Mexico and Colombia, in addition to being despotic, serves no purpose,” Petro expressed in X, while pointing out that the meeting proposal had already been made to General Aquilino, former commander of the US Pacific Command.
«Trafficking in fentanyl precursors, cocaine, contraband and weapons must be analyzed and treated jointly. The impositions here only serve the mafias. “I propose the same meeting again,” he said.
