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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and his top aides have justified lethal military strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats from Venezuela, by accusing Venezuela and alleged criminal networks operating on its soil like the Cartel de los Soles of flooding the United States with deadly drugs.
"This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Secretary of War (formerly known as Secretary of Defense) Pete Hegseth said on Nov. 13. He said the military mission has been officially named "Operation Southern Spear."
That’s reason enough, Trump and administration officials say, for launching U.S. military attacks that have killed at least 87 people in recent months – including two men clinging to wreckage after they survived an initial Sept. 2 strike that killed nine other suspected smugglers. They say it even warrants a potential attack on Venezuelan soil, which Trump has implied may be in the offing.
U.S. and United Nations drug data, however, show that Venezuela isn't a producer or exporter of fentanyl, a lab-made synthetic opioid, and that it plays a relatively minor role in the far less-lethal cocaine trade.
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"This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Secretary of War (formerly known as Secretary of Defense) Pete Hegseth said on Nov. 13. He said the military mission has been officially named "Operation Southern Spear."
That’s reason enough, Trump and administration officials say, for launching U.S. military attacks that have killed at least 87 people in recent months – including two men clinging to wreckage after they survived an initial Sept. 2 strike that killed nine other suspected smugglers. They say it even warrants a potential attack on Venezuelan soil, which Trump has implied may be in the offing.
U.S. and United Nations drug data, however, show that Venezuela isn't a producer or exporter of fentanyl, a lab-made synthetic opioid, and that it plays a relatively minor role in the far less-lethal cocaine trade.
Venezuela does not produce fentanyl
Trump says Venezuela sends US lethal drugs, but data tells different story
The president is justifying deadly military strikes on fatal US overdoses. But Venezuela is linked to cocaine, which is far less deadly than fentanyl.
