The US Department of War announced today that it conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel, the imperialist forces claimed were linked to the revolutionary Colombian guerrilla force, Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). The US claims they killed three individuals in the unprovoked, barbaric aggression. The strike, carried out on October 17th, was ordered directly by fascist leader Donald Trump.
According to a statement from the Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, the vessel was operating in the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility and was “known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics.”
It is clear that this is an expansion of the anti-socialist actions by the Trump regime in the southern hemisphere. The US regime has moved a remarkable amount of war material and soldiers to the Caribbean, brazenly threatening to invade Venezuela, and also, to attack Colombia, while using the “war on drugs” as a cheap pretext.
The US empire is attempting to reassert its control of the Western hemisphere, which they view as particularly important as they are losing ground everywhere else.