Hegseth announces another deadly US strike on alleged drug boat
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower. The attack on Tuesday killed two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 66 people in at least 16 strikes. Donald Trump has justified the strikes by insisting the United States is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels and claiming the boats are operated by foreign terror organizations. The administration has not provided evidence or more details. “We will find and terminate EVERY vessel with the intention of trafficking drugs to America to poison our citizens,” Hegseth said. Lawmakers from both parties have pressed the administration for more information on who is being targeted and the legal justification for the strikes. The latest attack comes as the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier has left the Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Caribbean after Hegseth ordered it to the region more than a week ago. It will join an already robust buildup of American planes, ships and thousands of troops in Latin America. A defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ship movements, confirmed that the Ford and the destroyer USS Bainbridge crossed through the Straits of Gibraltar and into the Atlantic on Tuesday. The Ford originally deployed with five destroyers, but it is not clear if all of them will go to the Caribbean. Two of the other destroyers in the Ford’s strike group, the USS Winston Churchill and the USS Mahan, are in the Mediterranean now, with the Mahan in port at Rota, Spain. The other two destroyers, the USS Forrest Sherman and the USS Mitchener, are in the Red Sea, the official said. In the latest strike, a video Hegseth posted to social media has a gray box obscuring a boat that appears in the water before it is blown up. The footage then cuts to the vessel engulfed by flames.
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