The U.S. Coast Guard says a national from the Dominican Republic has died after it opened fire on a boat carrying $11 million worth of cocaine that was trying to flee from authorities in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard eventually caught up with the boat and took two other …
Read More »Washington’s shadow war: How strikes on cartels threaten to collapse Maduro’s regime
Publicly, the White House says the latest strikes in the Caribbean are aimed at cartel infrastructure. Privately, some analysts suspect the campaign is calibrated to do something else: weaken longtime U.S. foe Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power. President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on the Venezuelan regime, striking four …
Read More »Trump releases video of US drone strike on ‘drug-carrying submarine’ in Caribbean that left 2 dead, 2 captured
President Donald Trump said Saturday that a U.S. military strike destroyed a “very large drug-carrying submarine” in the Caribbean this week, killing two suspected narco-terrorists and capturing two others alive. He released video of the strike. In a statement posted to Truth Social, Trump said the vessel was carrying mostly …
Read More »Eight Americans arrested in Bahamas after authorities discover 'high-powered weapons' cache, ammunition
Eight Americans were arrested in the Caribbean on Tuesday after authorities found “high-powered weapons” and a “substantial quantityof ammunition” on their boat, police said. The Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) said in a news release that officers from the Alice Town Police Station worked with the Bahamas Customs Department to …
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