Adnkronos Washington, Oct. 17 (Adnkronos/DPA/Europa Press) – The United States has carried out a new airstrike against a vessel in the Caribbean Sea allegedly involved in drug trafficking, in an attack that, for the first time since the beginning of this series of operations undertaken by Washington, left survivors. Although he did not specify the country involved, a government official told several US television stations, including ABC and NBC, that the US military carried out an airstrike during the day without killing the entire crew, as had happened in the five previous such strikes, which killed 27 people from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Donald Trump's administration has yet to issue an official statement on the operation, which is part of a campaign of bombings against vessels that US authorities have repeatedly identified as drug trafficking vessels, without, however, providing any evidence. A few hours earlier, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt had insisted on the US government's legitimacy in carrying out these types of attacks, arguing that "there should be no surprise about this." "The president has based his campaign on using every means possible to prosecute the drug cartels that have been trafficking illicit substances into our country for too long," she emphasized.