Pre.Trump Orders Sinking of Boat in International Waters Killing All 11 People On Board
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| In boat strike, Trump repurposes ‘war on terror’ for Latin American crime Uploaded: Sep 4, 2025 Analysts warn the US is using its ‘war on terror’ playbook for potential extrajudicial killings in Latin America. |
US Navy has Classified the boat before the strike to proof it was full of drugs. The picture above was release by them.
This is still a developing story that is one week old but we have learn new evidence that says there were no Drugs on Board, the boat was not aiming to come to the USA and indications are these people might have been fisherman but what it seems clear is that they were not carrying drugs. Just keep in mind who is investigating and the only news we can trust after all the lying about drugs on board would be any international government. Not the US and Not Venezuela who also has a bone on this incident because Trump is accusing them. So Taking the US and Venezuela out of the equation for a second, what do we have? 11 people dead for being in International Waters and it was not a White Shark that killed them.
We have an order from Trump to fire on this boat, no warning shots and no surrender "We are boarding you" like is customary even though under International Law vessels, boats can travel without being shot at or boarded. So We have 11 people traveling aiming not the US and carrying no drugs. They get to shoot by a Navy breaking International law and the way things are done out in the sea. Boots found are the ones Fishermen use not sneakers or other shoes used by Traffickers.
11 people dead, ordered by President of The US.
Just a thought, when another nation, let's say China or North Korea who has been treating to, sinks one of our Frigates in International water, what would the US say? It's illegal to board or sink vessel on International waters??? But "Mr. President the US does kills and sinks vessels in with the innocent and guilty looking ones alike"
Even under the widest interpretation of the legislation, it would not apply to Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration has dubiously claimed is directly aligned with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, or other criminal gangs.
The US president’s constitutional war powers, meanwhile, typically apply only to alleged “combatants”, not alleged criminals, the International Crisis Group’s Finucane explained.
“Being a drug smuggler, by itself, does not render you a combatant or an enemy fighter,” Finucane said.
“And if they don’t fall into that category for law of war purposes, then they’re civilians. And the intentional targeting of civilians is a war crime.”
New York Times
President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States had carried out a strike against a boat carrying drugs and killed 11 “terrorists,” the administration’s latest military escalation in Mr. Trump’s war against Venezuelan drug cartels that he has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the country.
Mr. Trump offered few specifics about the strike during his news conference on Tuesday, but later in the afternoon he posted more details on Truth Social.
“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists,” Mr. Trump wrote. He said the strike “occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.”
No American troops were harmed in the operation, he said.
Mr. Trump’s post was accompanied by a video of what appeared to be a speedboat cutting through the water, with a number of people on board. An explosion then appears to blow it up.
A senior U.S. official said a Special Operations aircraft — either an attack helicopter or an MQ-9 Reaper drone — carried out the attack on Tuesday morning against a four-engine speedboat loaded with drugs. U.S. surveillance aircraft and other sensors had been monitoring cartel maritime traffic for weeks before the strike, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational details.
The strike is an astonishing departure from traditional drug interdiction efforts. In the past, U.S. authorities focused on seizing drugs and identifying suspects to build a criminal case. A second senior U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said there would be more such attacks against cartel boats.
The action comes amid a major buildup of U.S. naval forces outside Venezuela’s waters. The administration has also stepped up belligerent rhetoric about fighting drug cartels and labeled Venezuela’s president, NicolĂ¡s Maduro, a terrorist cartel leader.
“The president is very clear that he’s going to use the full power of America, the full might of the United States, to take on and eradicate these drug cartels, no matter where they’re operating from, and no matter how long they’ve been able to act with impunity,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio before boarding a plane in Florida to head to Mexico.
In a deviation from Mr. Trump’s account, however, Mr. Rubio said that the vessel’s destination was probably Trinidad or another country in the Caribbean.
Mr. Trump signed a still-secret directive in July instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations. Around the same time, the administration declared that a Venezuelan criminal group was a terrorist organization and that Mr. Maduro was its leader, while calling his government illegitimate.
Since then, the Pentagon has moved U.S. Navy assets, including warships, into the southern Caribbean Sea. In response, Mr. Maduro said that he was deploying 4.5 million militiamen around his country and vowed to “defend our seas, our skies and our lands” from any incursions.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan accused the Maduro government of having effectively turned Venezuela into a “narco-state” in an indictment that was unsealed in March 2020 in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The indictment charged Mr. Maduro and some of his top aides — including Hugo Carvajal, then his chief of military intelligence — of being leaders of a sprawling drug trafficking organization known as the Cartel de los Soles, or the Cartel of the Suns.
Named for the sun insignia on the epaulets of Venezuelan generals, the cartel was first led by Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo ChĂ¡vez, according to prosecutors. Over the course of more than 20 years, prosecutors said, the cartel worked with guerrillas in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to ship tons of cocaine from clandestine airstrips, airports and seaports in Venezuela to U.S. soil. In doing so, the cartel not only made millions of dollars, but also weaponized cocaine “by flooding it into the United States to inflict its harmful and addictive effects on communities throughout this country,” prosecutors said.
Mr. Carvajal pleaded guilty to narco-terrorism conspiracy charges in June. But charges are still pending against Mr. Maduro and Diosdado Cabello RondĂ³n, a leader of the Venezuelan legislature and a former vice president of the country.
The constitutionally declare a republic in arms” if his country were attacked by U.S. forces deployed to the Caribbean, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. officials previously indicated that American guided-missile destroyers that had recently deployed to the region could target boats operated by drug cartels transporting fentanyl to the United States.
During remarks at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Trump told reporters that “when you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat — a drug-carrying boat.” He added that there were “a lot of drugs” on the vessel.
“And there’s more where that came from,” the president continued. He said that the drugs targeted on Tuesday “came out of Venezuela” and added that “we have a lot of drugs pouring into our country.”
In his social media post, he added: “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America.”
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group — including the U.S.S. San Antonio, the U.S.S. Iwo Jima and the U.S.S. Fort Lauderdale, carrying 4,500 sailors — and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, with 2,200 Marines, recently arrived in the region, Defense Department officials said.
Several P-8 surveillance planes and at least one submarine have also deployed to the region, officials said.
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