The president of the United States, Donald Trump, reported this Tuesday that his country’s Army carried out another attack against a ship in the Caribbean, near the coast of Venezuela, and confirmed the death of “six narcoterrorists,” according to the EFE agency.
“This morning, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic attack against a ship affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) that conducts drug trafficking in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command off the coast of Venezuela,” he wrote on his Truth Social network.
According to Trump, US intelligence “confirmed that the ship was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks and transited a known route” associated with drug cartels.
“The attack took place in international waters and six male narcoterrorists on board the ship were killed. “No member of the US Armed Forces was injured,” the president added.
Trump’s message is accompanied by a video where you can see how a small boat is hit by a projectile in an explosion that engulfs it in flames.
Illegal murders
The recent military attacks carried out by Washington in the Caribbean against vessels that were supposedly transporting drugs were described this Monday as “illegal murders” and “concerning” by the member of the United States House of Representatives, Jim Himes.
The Democratic legislator, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declared on Sunday that Congress receives little information from Donald Trump’s Administration, but acknowledged the existence of a memo published by the White House on the attacks. However, he rejected it.
In a program on the American network CBS, Himes asserted that “based on what I know now and on reading that memo, these are illegal murders.”
«They are illegal murders because the idea that the United States – and this is what the administration says is its justification – is involved in an armed conflict with any drug trafficker, Venezuelan drug trafficker, is absurd. “It would not hold up in any court,” he emphasized.
Alert the UN Security Council
Last Friday, October 10, the ambassador and permanent representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, alerted the Security Council about what he described as a “campaign of disinformation and systematic aggression” by the United States against his country. Moncada urged the international community to act urgently to avoid a new catastrophe in Latin America.
“The conflict does not exist, it is manufactured by the United States. They promote an endless war, fueled by their addiction to oil, the same one that led them to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. It is time to prevent that history from being repeated in Venezuela,” declared the diplomat.
Moncada also denounced the militarization of the Caribbean, the extrajudicial execution of civilians, the harassment of humble fishermen and the kidnapping of 78 Venezuelan girls and boys in US territory, separated from their families and used as political hostages. “Children should not be used as instruments of extortion. What right does the US have to terrorize innocent people?” he questioned.
Despite the provocations, the ambassador reaffirmed Venezuela’s commitment to peace: “We are a worthy country, which has never participated in international wars. But if we are attacked, we will exercise our right to defense, as established by the United Nations Charter.”
