"The U.S. has deployed several ships, even a nuclear-powered submarine, in the southern Caribbean. On Thursday, U.S. officials said two Venezuelan military aircraft buzzed a U.S. Navy ship in international waters. This comes as senior Trump administration officials are refusing to provide proof of their claims that blowing up the boat in the Caribbean earlier this week because it was carrying drugs from Venezuela."
"President Trump and other senior officials have claimed without evidence that the boat was carrying narcotics from Venezuela to the United States and was operated by the gang Tren de Aragua, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization. "It was pure murder," says Grandin. "In many ways, it's bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean, in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing.""
U.S. forces destroyed a boat in international waters near Venezuela, resulting in 11 deaths. Senior U.S. officials asserted without evidence that the vessel carried narcotics from Venezuela and was linked to Tren de Aragua, a group designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Officials have not provided proof of those claims. Multiple U.S. naval assets, including a nuclear-powered submarine, were deployed in the southern Caribbean. The administration is pursuing a renaming of the Department of Defense and threatens additional military actions in Latin America under the banner of the "war on drugs," raising concerns about extrajudicial killings and impunity.
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