US EditionLoomer on boat strikes: ‘Fentanyl isn’t being manufactured in Venezuela’
Laura Loomer disputes U.S. strikes on Venezuelan boats, citing expert views that cocaine, not fentanyl, is the main drug involved and fentanyl mainly originates from Mexico and China.
- On Monday, far-right activist Laura Loomer challenged the Trump administration's justification for more than a dozen strikes on Venezuelan boats, saying fentanyl isn't being manufactured in Venezuela.
- The administration argued the strikes aim to protect Americans from fentanyl, and since September, U.S. strikes have killed over 80 people, labeled 'narcoterrorists' by officials.
- Last month, military officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that cocaine, not fentanyl, was on the targeted boats, and a May Drug Enforcement Administration assessment linked fentanyl supplies to China-based chemical suppliers and Mexican transnational criminal organizations without mentioning Venezuela.
- In a social media post Monday, Loomer said Venezuelan drugs are a small portion entering the U.S. and urged action against Mexican cartels and China, while Annie Pforzheimer said Venezuela is 'not a fentanyl node.'
- Tren de Aragua was designated earlier this year and conducts small-scale trafficking including tusi ; experts say fentanyl flows originate in Mexico and China while cocaine comes mainly from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
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Common Dreams
Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration for Legal Justification of Deadly Boat Strikes
The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking the immediate release of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion and other documents related to President Trump’s illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats in international waters. “The public deserves to know how our government is …
The Independent
The Independent (US)Laura Loomer contradicts Trump administration on deadly ‘narco boat’ strikes
Far-right activist points out that evidence suggests a large portion of the fentanyl entering the U.S. comes from Mexico – not from Venezuela
All the ways the Trump administration has changed its story on the boat strikes
Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared with his old colleagues on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” to brag about the precision of the operation.
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