{"id":53460,"date":"2025-12-18T05:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53460"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:40:00","slug":"us-kills-4-in-latest-pacific-ocean-attack-as-venezuela-tension-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53460","title":{"rendered":"US kills 4 in latest Pacific Ocean attack as Venezuela tension spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States military said it killed four people in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/16\/us-military-kills-eight-in-latest-attacks-on-vessels-in-eastern-pacific\">latest attack on a vessel<\/a>\u00a0in the eastern Pacific Ocean, announcing the \u201clethal\u201d strike after resolutions seeking to rein in President Donald Trump\u2019s aggression towards Venezuela were voted down by US lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which is leading the burgeoning&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/14\/us-announces-southern-spear-mission-as-forces-deploy-to-south-america\">\u201cSouthern Spear\u201d military operation<\/a>&nbsp;in the Latin America region, said the attack on Wednesday targeted \u201cfour male narco-terrorists\u201d without providing any evidence that the destroyed vessel was involved in drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,\u201d SOUTHCOM said in a post on social media alongside a video showing a speedboat being destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ordered by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the attack brings to almost 100 the number of people killed in US strikes on 26 vessels \u2013 that Washington has acknowledged \u2013 in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean since September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While legal experts have accused the US of carrying out a campaign of extrajudicial killings in international waters,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/us-conducts-eighth-strike-on-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-in-the-pacific\">Trump has justified the attacks<\/a>&nbsp;as necessary to halt the flow of drugs into the US from drug cartels, particularly those based in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the Republican-majority House of Representatives voted 213 to 211 against a resolution directing the president to remove US forces from hostilities with or against Venezuela without congressional authorisation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: The United States military said it killed four people in its\u00a0latest attack on a vessel\u00a0in the eastern Pacific Ocean, announcing the \u201clethal\u201d strike after resolutions seeking to rein in President Donald Trump\u2019s aggression towards Venezuela were voted down by US lawmakers. 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