It was the eighth known strike, and the first outside the Caribbean, in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it says are boats carrying drugs bound for the United States.
U.S. troops riding an amphibious supply vehicle during a training exercise in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, last week. The military has been expanding its presence in the Caribbean region.
Representative Adam Smith said the Trump administration had failed to provide a legal rationale for killing rather than arresting drug trafficking suspects.
Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, in June. “President Trump and his administration continue to fail to answer pressing questions regarding the president’s orders to carry out lethal U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea,” he said in a statement on Monday.
It was the seventh known strike in President Trump’s military campaign of attacking, rather than arresting, those suspected of running drugs in the Caribbean.
Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.
A Navy guided missile destroyer docked near the entrance to the Panama Canal in Panama City last month. The United States has deployed warships, surveillance planes and an attack submarine to the region.
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