"The U.S. bombed two boats in the Pacific Ocean in two days, the Trump administration announced this week, in a major escalation of the U.S.'s aggression as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed that the "strikes will continue, day after day." Hegseth announced both strikes in nearly identical posts on X on Wednesday, bringing the total number of publicly announced attacks to nine. They are the first that officials have acknowledged took place in the Pacific Ocean."
"The first strike, on Tuesday, killed two people, who Hegseth deemed "terrorists" without evidence. The second killed three, he said. This brings the total acknowledged death toll of the U.S.'s operations in the region to 37 people. Hegseth said that the strikes took place in the eastern Pacific, and a defense official confirmed to CBS that the first one took place in international waters off the coast of Colombia."
U.S. forces carried out two boat bombings in the eastern Pacific over two days, marking the first publicly acknowledged strikes in that ocean and bringing nine publicly announced attacks overall. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly announced the strikes on X and vowed that the strikes would continue. The first strike occurred in international waters off the coast of Colombia, according to a defense official. The first attack killed two people and the second killed three, raising the region's acknowledged death toll to 37. Members of Congress say the Pentagon has not provided evidence to justify the attacks. The operations accompany a reported covert CIA operation in Venezuela and across the Caribbean.
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