The US has carried out at least 15 attacks in international waters of the Pacific and the Caribbean in which it has extrajudicially murdered at least 63 people.
Mexico City, November 1 (However).- The Secretary of War of USA (EU), Pete Hegsethannounced this Saturday a new attack against another ship in the Caribbean, killing the three people who were on board.
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“This ship – like ALL THE OTHERS – was known to our intelligence services for its involvement in narcotics smuggling, was transiting a known drug trafficking route and was transporting narcotics. Three narcoterrorists were on board during the attack, which took place in international waters. All three terrorists were killed and no members of the US forces were injured in the attack,” he said.
In addition, he reiterated that the Department he heads will treat alleged drug traffickers as the United States treats terrorists.
Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean.
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— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 2, 2025
“These narcoterrorists are bringing drugs into our country to poison Americans on their own land, and they will not succeed. The Department will treat them exactly the same as we treat Al-Qaeda. We will continue to track them, locate them, find them and eliminate them.”
Tonight’s attack is the 15th by the United States in international waters since the beginning of the Southern Command’s military campaign that began in the Caribbean, near Venezuelan waters, which has left 63 people dead. Half of these operations, without a court order, have been carried out in the Caribbean and the Pacific against vessels that said country claims have links to drug trafficking.
Just yesterday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH), Volker Türk, assured that with these attacks the United States violates international law and asked the Government of President Donald Trump to end such a military strategy.
“These attacks and their increasing human cost are unacceptable. The United States must stop these attacks and take all necessary measures to prevent the extrajudicial executions of the people aboard these vessels,” said the High Commissioner. “The United States air attacks against vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific violate international human rights law,” the official stressed.