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The U.S. military has carried out its 15th strike in the ongoing campaign against regional drug cartels. These actions continue to receive the backing of Trinidad and Tobago's government.
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00:00U.S. War Secretary Pete Hetsch announced on Facebook that, at the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump,
00:07the U.S. Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Caribbean.
00:17The U.S. War Secretary said that, quote,
00:19The U.S. War Secretary emphasized that, quote,
00:49CNN is reporting that the U.S. military has killed 64 people in 15 strikes that have destroyed 16 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States.
01:10CNN has also reported that there have been three survivors of those strikes, two of whom were briefly detained by the U.S. Navy before being returned to their army.
01:19home countries.
01:21Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro, has claimed the recent buildup of the U.S. military in the Caribbean is aimed at regime change in Venezuela.
01:29The U.S. government has maintained that the recent U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific are about the U.S. war on drug cartels,
01:38which has received the full support of the government of Trinidad and Tobago, led by Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Besessa.
01:44Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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