The United States has announced it carried out three more attacks against boats accused of trafficking illegal narcotics in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the strikes on Tuesday morning in a post on the social media platform X, framing the attacks as a national security measure.

“The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own,” Hegseth wrote.

But critics have called the bombing campaign a form of extrajudicial killing and a violation of international law.

In his post, Hegseth explained that all three air strikes had taken place on Monday. An accompanying video showed one missile striking two boats floating side by side, setting both

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