{"id":2215,"date":"2025-11-15T05:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:08:28","slug":"us-confirms-four-people-killed-in-20th-strike-on-vessel-in-the-caribbean-military-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"US confirms four people killed in 20th strike on vessel in the Caribbean | Military News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Latest killings confirmed as US officials reportedly hold meetings to discuss possible military operations in Venezuela<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 15 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">15 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div 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aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The United States military has confirmed that four people were killed in a strike on a boat in international waters \u2013 the 20th reported attack on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific \u2013 as officials of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration were reported to have held meetings on possible military operations in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Friday, the US Southern Command said the strike on Monday was authorised by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and that the boat was \u201ctrafficking narcotics\u201d, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Southern Command shared an accompanying video clip that showed an aerial view of the boat travelling in the Caribbean before being struck and exploding in a ball of flames.<\/p>\n<p>International law and human rights experts have repeatedly said that such attacks amount to extrajudicial executions, even if those targeted are suspected of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has ordered at least 20 military strikes in recent months against suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coasts of Latin America, killing some 80 people.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"operation-southern-spear\">\u2018Operation Southern Spear\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The Reuters news agency reported on Saturday that senior Trump administration officials held three meetings at the White House this week to discuss options for possible military action against Venezuela, citing unnamed officials.<\/p>\n<p>The reported meetings come as the Trump administration has continued to significantly expand the US military\u2019s presence in the Latin America region, including with F-35 aircraft, warships and a nuclear submarine.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Pentagon said the Gerald R Ford Carrier Strike Group, which includes the world\u2019s largest aircraft carrier, had arrived in the Caribbean with at least 4,000 sailors and dozens of \u201ctactical aircraft\u201d on board.<\/p>\n<p>In total, there are now about 12,000 US sailors and Marines in the region, in what Secretary Hegseth on Thursday formally named \u201cOperation Southern Spear\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Under the US Constitution, Congress has the sole power to declare war.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has said that he would not \u201cnecessarily ask for a declaration of war\u201d in order to continue killing people \u201cthat are bringing drugs into our country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A newly published Reuters\/Ipsos poll found that US military escalation in South America is not popular with the US public.<\/p>\n<p>Just 29 percent of those surveyed said they supported the extrajudicial killings of suspected traffickers, and only 21 percent said they supported military intervention in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"us-military-buildup-threatens-zone-of-peace-in-latin-america\">US military buildup threatens \u2018zone of peace\u2019 in Latin America<\/h2>\n<p>Leaders from several Central and South American countries have condemned the ongoing US strikes and military buildup in the region, saying it violates a 2014 agreement designating the area as a \u201cZone of Peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a regional bloc of 33 countries, signed the declaration in Havana, Cuba, in 2014. The US is not a member.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said in a statement that the US deployment is \u201can act of provocation that threatens the self-determination of our peoples\u201d, according to Venezuela-based TV channel Telesur.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro have also criticised the US strikes.<\/p>\n<p>In a national broadcast last week, Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro said the Trump administration was \u201cfabricating a new eternal war\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro said his country, which has been struggling economically under US sanctions, has prepared what he called a \u201cmassive deployment\u201d of forces in case of a US attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest killings confirmed as US officials reportedly hold meetings to discuss possible military operations in Venezuela Published On 15 Nov 202515 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The United States military has confirmed that four people were killed in a strike on a boat in international waters \u2013 the 20th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}