13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/us-military-airstrikes-caribbean-pacific-victim-identities
13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/us-military-airstrikes-caribbean-pacific-victim-identities
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This is the Ying but I like to think of the lives saved by those not now taking drugs and the money the suppliers lost ..the Yang .
After all drug using criminals are ‘flesh-and-blood people’ too and we are saving them money to reflect on their mistakes and start afresh…and clean .
> “Despite the US claim that the strikes are fighting narco-terrorism, what is actually happening is that young people living in extremely precarious conditions, doing whatever work they can to support their families, are being targeted,” said María Teresa Ronderos, director and co-founder of the CLIP.
> “The US is not taking down any Pablo Escobar or Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán,” she added.
That shouldn’t comes as a surprise to anyone with the slightest bit of common sense. Drug cartel leaders are about as involved in the actual drug trafficking operations as Jeff Bezos is in the delivery of Amazon packages.
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>It is unclear if the US has ever identified any of its [194 victims](https://www.wola.org/2025/11/us-military-strikes-trump-drugs-caribbean/) before attacking them, and the names of just three had previously emerged, after [their families](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/trump-caribbean-drug-boat-attack-complaint) launched [legal cases](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/trump-military-boat-strikes-lawsuit) against the White House.
>But a joint effort by 20 journalists led by the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) this week [published the identities of 13 of those killed](https://www.elclip.org/bombardeados-sin-derecho-defensa-comando-sur-victimas-caribe-pacifico/?lang=en), some of whom showed no indication of involvement in drug trafficking.
Just as anyone with a brain suspected, they are just bombing boats to look like they are doing something.
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Extrajudicial murder
As opposed to Metal-and-Oil people?
So not robot people. Got it.
[None of these deaths needed to happen.](https://donsdeathtoll.com)
Juan Carlos Fuentes
Age 43. Venezuelan. Driver from Güiria. Crossed to Trinidad promised work at a car wash. Killed Oct 3, 2025. Wife says no involvement in trafficking.
Luis Ramón Amundarain
Age 36. Venezuelan. Driver from Güiria. Traveled with Fuentes. Killed in same Oct 3 strike. Widow says no involvement in trafficking.
Eduard Hidalgo
Age 46. Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Dushak Milovcic
Age 24. Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Robert Sánchez
Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Jesús Carreño
Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Eduardo Jaime
Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Luis Alí Martínez
Venezuelan. Killed in boat strike.
Alejandro Andrés Carranza Medina
Age 42. Colombian. Killed in boat strike. Family launched lawsuit against the U.S.
Ronald Arregocés
Colombian. Killed in boat strike. Family launched lawsuit against the U.S.
Adrián Lubo
Colombian. Killed in boat strike.
Pedro Ramón Holguín Holguín
Age 40. Ecuadorian. Killed in boat strike.
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Solórzano
Age 34. Ecuadorian. Killed in boat strike.
Chad Joseph
Age 26. Trinidadian. Fisher with no indication of involvement in drug trade. Family launched lawsuit against the U.S.
Rishi Samaroo
Trinidadian. Fisher with no indication of involvement in drug trade.
Ricky Joseph
Saint Lucian. Killed in boat strike.
It’s the only kind of people I know
It was murder.
Every single person who had the power to prevent it is guilty of MURDER.
Edit: To the downvoters – It IS murder. Good luck defending it as anything less than murder. WTF.
But they were brown so the GOP doesn’t care.
Were
Firing on shipwrecked enemies is the example used as an unlawful order in the military handbook. When this is over, they will see a trial and be put in front of a firing squad. Same thing happened after Vietnam.
Flesh and blood drug smugglers. But yes people too.
So the article is trying to justify the people trying to smuggle drugs into other countries by saying the people who are smuggling them are poor and need the money.
They’re not smuggling Kinder Eggs. They’re smuggling hard drugs that kill people. The amount of justification and stretching of the truth is insane and they should be ashamed of themselves for trying to justify them being drug smugglers.
When will they learn the drug war is unwinnable.
Yeah, but remember the evidence that they were smuggling drugs was that
*music starts*
*Lonely Island struts in*
“I’M ON A BOAT!”
I mean, they all were….
Not one of them was a “drug dealer”, I’m sure
*were*
I think they didn’t even care if they were drug traffickers or not. Their deaths was a price the clown administration was willing to pay to act like they are the tough guys
As opposed to non flesh people?