00:00The U.S. military says it carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing four people.
00:08U.S. Southern Command, which is leading the expanding Southern Spear operation in Latin America,
00:14says the strike targeted four male narco-terrorists, but provided no evidence linking the vessel to drug trafficking.
00:20The attack brings the total to nearly 100 people killed in U.S. strikes on 26 vessels across the eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September.
00:32On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House blocked resolutions that would have required the Trump administration to seek congressional approval
00:40before continuing strikes against alleged drug cartels.
00:43The vote comes as the U.S. increases its military presence in Latin America,
00:48with President Donald Trump threatening action against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government,
00:53which Washington has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
00:58Trump also ordered a blockade on Tuesday of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela,
01:04escalating his administration's months-long pressure campaign against Maduro.
01:08Venezuela has now asked the United Nations Security Council to convene to discuss what it calls ongoing U.S. aggression.
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