"The strike, late Tuesday, killed two or three people on the boat, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. This was the eighth known strike that U.S. Special Operations forces have conducted since Sept. 2, when the military, on President Donald Trump's orders, began killing people aboard boats believed to be smuggling drugs as if they were enemy combatants in a war rather than criminal suspects."
"The Trump administration's policy of attacking suspected drug runners began with a focus on Venezuela. Officials are also weighing whether to intensify an effort to remove Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, who was indicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States in 2020 and whom the Trump team calls a cartel leader. But in the interim, the boat attacks have increasingly encompassed Colombia, which is a far greater source of narcotics smuggled to the United States than Venezuela."
U.S. military forces attacked a vessel in the eastern Pacific off Colombia, killing two or three people aboard. The strike was the eighth known action since Sept. 2 under orders to treat suspected drug smugglers as enemy combatants rather than criminal suspects. The administration previously acknowledged seven strikes that it said killed 32 people. The campaign began focused on Venezuela and has shifted toward Colombia, a larger source of narcotics to the United States. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said strikes killed Colombians and called them murder. The administration said prior attacks occurred in international waters and targeted cartel members designated as terrorists.
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