U.S. Expands Drug War Campaign With First Pacific Ocean Strike Near Colombia

At least 2-3 people killed in the Pacific operation; 32+ deaths reported across eight confirmed attacks since September 2.

Since September, the United States military has conducted eight strikes against vessels suspected of carrying narcotics, extending its campaign for the first time into the Pacific Ocean off Colombia's coast. The Trump administration has reframed drug trafficking not as a criminal matter but as an act of war, treating those aboard these ships as enemy combatants rather than suspects deserving trial. At least 32 people have been killed across these operations, a toll that quietly accumulates as the geography of the campaign widens. In this shift lies an older, unresolved question: whether force

U.S. Expands Drug War Campaign With First Pacific Ocean Strike Near Colombia

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