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drug trafficking gangs in an aggressive campaign that critics say has overstepped legal and presidential norms. Trump’s administration
drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing one man and leaving two survivors, as the Trump administration continues its monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers
campaign against drug-trafficking cartels. But it continues a trend under the Trump administration to revoke
drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers
administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 191 people in total. At the same time, Trump
administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 191 people in total. At the same time, Trump
drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people, as the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) wages a months-long campaign against alleged traffickers
administration's wider considerations in the Western Hemisphere, specifically the self-dubbed "Donroe Doctrine", under which Washington views the Americas as its sphere of influence. Trump's pardon of Hernández, who prosecutors said had "partnered
drug boats in recent months – brings the US campaign’s death toll to at least 185, according to a tally compiled by Agence France-Presse. As with many previous attacks, the US military’s southern
campaign targeting boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has killed at least 178 people since last September, but there is not detailed evidence behind military officials’ claims that the vessels targeted are involved
administration has pledged to take a [militaristic approach](/news/2026/3/5/trump-administration-doubles-down-on-military-action-in-latin-america) to Latin America to stifle drug trafficking. It has sought to reframe criminal organisations as “narco-terrorists” seeking to destabilise the US, designating several as “foreign
campaign to strike boats in the Caribbean Sea, has sparked mass outrage and allegations that the US has violated international law. The Trump administration has described the operation as an effort to fight “narco-traffickers
administration against those it targets as “unsubstantiated, fear-mongering claims”. Legal experts have said that if some vessels were involved in drug trafficking, those on board should face the law, rather than deadly attacks
campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the [Caribbean](https://www.theguardian.com/world/caribbean) and the eastern Pacific. It is unclear if the US has ever identified any of its [194 victims](https://www.wola.org/2025/11/us-military-strikes-trump-drugs-caribbean/) before
campaign against Cuba’s leadership. “This is a political manoeuvre, devoid of any legal basis, aimed solely at padding the dossier they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba,” Diaz
campaign,](https://www.npr.org/2025/12/13/nx-s1-5643538/chile-election-kast-jara) Kast regularly threatened the 336,000 migrants living illegally in Chile, according to official estimates, with expulsion. So far, he has deported just 40 people on a single outbound flight
administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing "narco-terrorists" against whom U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in an "armed conflict." Critics have questioned the overall legality
administration. "This is a tournament where players, fans, and officials are not walking in free of risk, if they can get in at all," according to Craig Foster, a former captain of Australia's 'Socceroos
Trump has [sought to justify the attacks](https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-cartels-drug-trafficking-trump-39cb6e4bd416b4216644c03b5ca59d87) by claiming the US is [engaged](https://apnews.com/article/trump-maduro-drugs-venezuela-911-hegseth-3db3aafed492556bb9ca7de855c4849e) in an “armed conflict” with Latin American cartels. But United Nations officials have said [international humanitarian
administrations slow-walked the implementation of the settlement, while some Farc factions and other rebel groups refused to sign any agreement, instead growing in strength and size. ![A soldier holding a gun stands guard, with