Four killed in the last hit in the United States on a suspected drug near Venezuela

The US forces killed four people in an attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela, which is said to have transferred drugs, says Defense Minister Pete Heget.

“The strike is held in international waters right to the shore of Venezuela as the ship transports significant amounts of drugs – it heads to America to poison our people,” heget wrote in a publication of X.

This is the latest in a number of recent deadly strikes that the United States has performed on boats in international waters, which is said to participate in “drug trafficking”.

Strikes attract condemnation in countries, including Venezuela and Colombia, with some international lawyers describing strikes as a violation of international law.

Heget said the attack took place in the area of ​​responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers the bigger part of South America and the Caribbean.

“Our intelligence, no doubt, confirmed that this ship is drug trafficking, people on board are drug-terrorist and they operated on a well-known transit route of a drug that is required,” Heget said on Friday.

“These blows will continue until the attacks on the American people are over !!!!”

US President Trump also confirmed the strike on his social platform for the truth, saying that the boat carries enough drugs “to kill 25 to 50,000 people.”

However, the US has not provided evidence of its claims or any information about the identity of those on board.

There was no immediate response from Venezuela, but his President Nicolas Maduro had previously condemned the blows and said his country would defend himself against us “aggression”.

The fatal attack on Friday is the fourth from the United States in a month.

Trump said 11 people were killed at strike against a ship carrying drugs in the Southern Caribbean in early September.

Later in the month, two separate strikes killed a total of six people.

This Thursday, an expiring note sent to the congress, named by US media, that the US government has now decided to be in a “non-international armed conflict” with drugs for drugs.

This is important because the administration is required by the law to report to Congress if it uses the armed forces, which suggests that it plans to use additional hostilities.

The United States has positioned its strikes on suspected drug boats as self -defense, although many lawyers question their legality.

Forming this as an active armed conflict is likely to justify the use of more extreme forces for wartime – for example, killing “enemy fighters”, even if they did not pose a cruel threat or detain people indefinitely. These are similar powers of those attached to al -Qaeda after September 11.

Trump did not provide reasoning why it seems that he categorizes drug trafficking and related crimes such as an “armed attack” or is called which cartels he believes are attacking the United States.

He has already designed a lot of cartels, including in Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela, as terrorist organizations – giving US authorities with more powers in their response to them.