Por SARAH RAZA

Agentes federales arrestaron a una docena de personas en Minneapolis desde el inicio de una operación de aplicación de la ley centrada principalmente en inmigrantes somalíes que viven ilegalmente en Estados Unidos, pero menos de la mitad de los detenidos son de origen somalí.

El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) informó el jueves que los agentes habían arrestado a 12 personas. De ellas, seis son mexicanas, cinco son de Somalia y una es de El Salvador.

Minneapolis-St. Paul, que tiene la comunidad somalí más grande del país, es el área en la que el gobierno de Trump se ha centrado para realizar deportaciones masivas tras realizar operaciones en Chicago, Los Ángeles y Charlotte, Carolina del Norte. Esta semana, las autoridades de inmigración también llegaron a Nueva Orleans, donde las autoridades dijeron que tienen la intención de arrestar hasta 5.000 personas.

En un comunicado, el ICE calificó a las 12 personas arrestadas como algunos de los “peores entre los peores criminales extranjeros ilegales”. Ocho de ellos habían sido acusados o condenados por delitos como agresión, fraude, violencia doméstica y conducir bajo la influencia de estupefacientes, según la agencia.

El presidente Donald Trump se refirió recientemente a los inmigrantes somalíes en declaraciones públicas, llamándolos “basura” y diciendo que “no contribuyen en nada”. También culpó al gobernador demócrata Tim Walz por permitir que ocurrieran supuestos fraudes en programas gubernamentales bajo su supervisión, lo cual, según una publicación conservadora, canalizaba dinero a un grupo extremista somalí.

Las medidas han generado intensas críticas de funcionarios locales y estatales que han denunciado la retórica de Trump y se han comprometido a proteger a la comunidad somalí. El alcalde de Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, afirmó que la policía de la ciudad no participaría en la operación federal de aplicación de la ley de inmigración.

En el comunicado del ICE, la subsecretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Tricia McLaughlin, acusó a Frey y Walz de no hacer cumplir las leyes de inmigración y de poner en peligro a los ciudadanos.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

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Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel

Tyler Durden
Fri, 12/05/2025 – 18:50

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KYIV, Ukraine — President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials said Friday they’ll meet for a third day of talks after making progress on creating a security framework for postwar Ukraine and are urging Russia to commit to peace.

The officials, who met for a second day in Florida on Friday, issued a joint statement that offered broad brushstrokes about the progress they say that’s been made as Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to agree to a U.S.-mediated proposal to end nearly four years of war.

“Both parties agreed that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward de-escalation and cessation of killings,” the statement said. “Parties also separately reviewed the future prosperity agenda which aims to support Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, joint U.S.–Ukraine economic initiatives, and long-term recovery projects.”

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s talks in Floriday with Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s lead negotiator, follow discussions between President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. envoys at the Kremlin on Tuesday.

Friday’s session took place at the the Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, Florida, a high-end private golf and lifestyle destination owned by Witkoff’s real estate development company.

Previous diplomatic attempts to break the deadlock have come to nothing and the nearly four-year war has continued unabated. Officials largely have kept a lid on how the latest talks are going, though Trump’s initial 28-point plan was leaked.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s delegation in Florida wanted to hear from the U.S. side about the talks at the Kremlin.

Zelenskyy, as well as European leaders backing him, have repeatedly accused Putin of stalling in peace talks while the Russian army tries to press forward with its invasion. Zelenskyy said in a video address late Thursday that officials wanted to know “what other pretexts Putin has come up with to drag out the war and to pressure Ukraine.”

Speaking to Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Friday, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov praised Kushner as potentially playing an important role in ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ushakov also took part in Tuesday’s talks at the Kremlin.

“If any plan leading to a settlement is put on paper, it will be the pen of Mr. Kushner that will lead the way,” Ushakov said.

The flattering comments about Kushner by the senior Russian official come as Putin has sought to sow division between Trump and Ukraine and Europe at a moment when Trump’s impatience with the conflict is mounting. Putin said his five-hour talks this week with Witkoff and Kushner were “necessary” and “useful,” but some proposals were unacceptable.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term and was the president’s point person on developing the Abraham Accords, which formalized commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and a trio of Arab nations.

Kushner has played a more informal role in Trump’s second go-around, but he helped Witkoff close out ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas this fall. Trump tapped Kushner again to pair up with Witkoff to try to find an endgame to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The European take on the peace talks

Ushakov, who accompanied Putin on a visit to India on Friday, repeated the Russian president’s recent criticism of Europe’s stance on the peace talks. Kyiv’s European allies are concerned about possible Russian aggression beyond Ukraine and want a prospective peace deal to include strong security guarantees.

Kyiv’s allies in Europe are “constantly putting forward demands that are unacceptable to Moscow,” Ushakov told Russia’s state-owned Zvezda TV. “Putting it mildly, the Europeans don’t help Washington and Moscow reach a settlement on the Ukrainian issues.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that he made progress during a visit to Beijing on getting Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s support for peace efforts.

“We exchanged deeply and truthfully on all points, and I saw a willingness from the (Chinese) president to contribute to stability and peace,” Macron said.

The French president said he stressed that Ukraine needs guarantees that Russia won’t attack it again if a settlement is reached and that Europe must have a voice in negotiations.

“The unity between Americans and Europeans on the Ukrainian issue is essential. And I say it, repeat it, emphasize it. We need to work together,” Macron said.

The latest drone attacks

Russian drones struck a house in central Ukraine, killing a 12-year-old boy, officials said, while long-range Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted a Russian port and an oil refinery.

The Russian attack on Thursday night in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed the house where the boy was killed and also two women were injured, according to the head of the regional military administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 137 drones of various types during the night.

Ukrainian drones attacked a port and an oil refinery inside Russia overnight as part of Kyiv’s campaign to disrupt Russian logistics, Ukraine’s general staff said.

The drones struck Temriuk sea port in Russia’s Krasnodar region and the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region, starting blazes, a statement said. Syzran is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the border with Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said only that its air defenses intercepted 85 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

Madhani reported from Washington. John Leicester in Paris and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

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LILLE, Francia (AP) — El Marsella sufrió su primera derrota en seis semanas en la liga francesa después de que el gol de Ethan Mbappé le dio la victoria el viernes 1-0 al Lille.

Lille, que es cuarto en la Ligue 1, empató en puntos con Marsella, que es tercero.

Marsella no había perdido en seis partidos de liga, pero se rezagó después de 10 minutos gracias a una defensa vacilante.

Una confusión entre el portero y la defensa permitió a Mbappé interceptar y empujar el largo pase de Nabil Bentaleb.

La tercera victoria consecutiva del Lille mejoró su récord en casa a 16 victorias y solo dos derrotas en sus últimos 23 partidos de la liga francesa.

Esta fue la primera derrota del Marsella en la liga desde el 25 de octubre contra Lens. Marsella tuvo dificultades en Lille y su primer disparo a puerta fue a los 76 minutos.

Brest vence al Mónaco

Brest logró su tercera victoria consecutiva después de vencer 1-0 al Mónaco. Kamory Doumbia cabeceó el único gol a los 28 minutos.

Ludovic Ajorque de Brest fue expulsado al 60 por una mala entrada sobre Lamine Camara, pero el equipo aguantó y subió al noveno lugar.

Mientras tanto, Mónaco lamentó una actuación insípida que le impidió ganar impulso después de la victoria de la semana pasada sobre el campeón defensor Paris Saint-Germain.

Se mantiene en séptimo lugar, cuatro puntos por delante del Brest.

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DuPagePads, a Wheaton-based organization that helps homeless people, has received a $5 million grant from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos through their Bezos Day 1 Families Fund.

To say the folks at DuPagePads are overwhelmed is putting it mildly.

“We’re so excited about what we’re going to be able to do,” DuPagePads President and CEO April Redzic said Friday.

“This incredible grant will allow us to create new programming, specifically for families, to help them get out of shelter and into an apartment of their own faster,” she said.

The grant will also “give additional educational support for our kids who are staying with us at our housing center, just to help them be connected to school and extra-curricular activities so they grow and learn and have the same opportunities as their peers who have houses of their own right now,” Redzic said.

DuPagePads was invited to apply for the grant, she said.

Gven its mission, the nonprofit fits in with the Day 1 Families Fund, which“has a particular interest in helping families who are homeless,” she said.

“We got on their radar,” Redzic added.

DuPagePads President and CEO April Redzic, second from left, said her nonprofit is thrilled with the $5 million grant from the foundation run by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos. She is seen here with DuPagePads staff, from left, John Lynch, April Redzic, Chad Pedigo, Sarah Lieb, Tori Shaffer, Ana Hernandez and Jen Coyer. (DuPagePads)

As of Friday morning, there were 305 people — including 108 children — at DuPagePads’ Intermediate Housing Center, a former hotel, in Downers Grove, she said.

The site gives individuals and families privacy by having their own rooms.

“One of our goals is that no child should sleep in a car. That’s something we feel strongly about,” she said.

There are another 18 clients in an emergency winter shelter funded by a separate grant from DuPage County.

“That will be growing through the month of December,” she said.

The goal is to “utilize (the grant money) as quickly as possible to help our families,” she said.

One goal is to provide additional services for the street outreach program. “You immediately help families get off the street if it’s a family staying in a car,” she said.

Through the educational program, using other funding, DuPagePads during the COVID-19 pandemic was able to build a program for children “to make sure they’re enrolled in school, have the resources, school supplies, and also build out some additional activities that will allow them to grow and learn.”

That may include connecting to a local YMCA or other programs. The Bezos grant will help that too.

“We’ve been doing that since we acquired our interim housing center in 2022,” she said.

“We’re growing that program to have a transportation component so kids staying in our interim center will be able to attend after-school activities their peers in school can attend,” Redzic said.

“One thing that’s unique about DuPage County is we have 26 different school districts, so we wouldn’t be able to have one after-school bus.

“We haven’t had a way to get kids to and from after-school basketball, park district soccer, things like that, this (grant) is going to allow for that and really be game-changer for our kids,” she said.

Another goal is to establish a fund designed to help families pay their first and last month’s rent along with a security deposit often required by landlords.

Two people relax in a room at DuPagePad’s Intermediate Housing Center in Downers Grove. On Friday, there were 305 people — including 108 children — staying at the shelter. (DuPagePads)

“A year of homelessness can set a child back two years,” she said, adding that a tutoring program will be allowed to continue with the grant.

“The other thing is kids who are homeless are 10 times more likely to be homeless as adults so not only is this helping families now, we believe this will help prevent future homelessness,” she said.

The Bezos Day 1 Families Fund this year gave $102.5 million in grants to 32 organizations in 20 states, the District of Columbia and Guam.

Grants ranged from $1.25 million to $5 million. DuPagePads is the lone recipient in the state of Illinois.

“We’re so grateful for this and the myriad ways it will change our clients’ lives,” Redzic said.

In the coming weeks, housing navigators — people who search for and find landlords who rent to homeless persons — will be busy searching for apartments “so we can quickly find them places.”

“It’s so wonderful to get out of a car and into our interim housing center,” Redzic said, “but you’re in a one-bedroom hotel room with your family. Now, they’ll have their own apartment again.”

Steve Metsch is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/dupagepads-grant-bezos-homeless-redzic/ 

CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ (AP) — No era quizá la zona en la que Panamá quería estar.

La selección dirigida por el técnico hispano-danés Thomas Christiansen quedó en el Grupo L de la próxima Copa del Mundo junto a la poderosa Inglaterra —a la que enfrentó en su primera experiencia mundialista en Rusia 2018— así como la Croacia del histórico Luka Modric y décima en el ranking de la FIFA, y Ghana.

“Lo complica un poco, pero seguimos con la misma ilusión de competir”, señaló Christiansen a la prensa tras el sorteo en la capital estadounidense el viernes.

Panamá, que será el único representante de Centroamérica en el Mundial entre los equipos clasificados de la CONCACAF, se debatía antes del sorteo sobre si caer en una zona con potencias para seguir ganando experiencia o con rivales posiblemente más accesibles para soñar en un inédito pase a segunda ronda.

Resulta que los canaleros se volverán a topar contra los ingleses, quienes los golearon 6-1 en Rusia en una zona de primera ronda que completaban Bélgica y Túnez. Bajo la dirección del colombiano Hernán Darío Gómez, los panameños perdieron sus tres partidos en esa fase.

“Dos europeos que podrían haber estado en el Bombo 1”, destacó Christiansen al referirse a Inglaterra y Croacia.

Dijo que si bien el resultado contra Inglaterra en Rusia fue abultado, consideró que se debería rescatar lo “positivo”. Eso fue el primer gol de Panamá en un Mundial, obra del defensor Felipe Baloy.

“Vamos a intentar revivir esa alegría del gol que se vivió como si fuera una victoria. Nosotros vamos con la misma ilusión, queremos agradar, sobre todo, conseguir puntos y porqué no soñar, sabemos que es muy complicado”, destacó el técnico europeo, quien logró clasificar a Panamá después de la eliminación a Qatar en su primer ciclo con el equipo centroamericano.

Ahora el país centroamericano quedó pendiente a las sedes donde jugará la selección, que se definirían el fin de semana.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has built up a fleet of warships near Venezuela, including the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, as American forces keep blowing up small boats accused of smuggling narcotics for drug cartels.

The expanded U.S. military presence, the largest in Latin America in decades, is fueling speculation about how the forces could be employed. President Donald Trump has said that land attacks are coming soon, without offering any details on location.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has insisted the real purpose of the U.S. military operations is to force him from office.

The Trump administration says the military has killed at least 87 people in 22 known strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since early September. Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and asserted the U.S. is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.

As the number of strikes has grown without a declaration of war from Congress, lawmakers have questioned the legal reasoning for them.

Following reports that the very first attack involved a follow-on strike to kill two survivors, Congress has begun to investigate the campaign. Lawmakers recently called in the Navy commander who oversaw the strikes for classified briefings.

Here is a timeline of the U.S. military actions, concerns among some lawmakers and the response in Venezuela:

Jan. 20

Trump signs an executive order that paves the way for criminal organizations and drug cartels to be named “foreign terrorist organizations.” They include Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan street gang.

The U.S. intelligence community has disputed Trump’s central claim that Maduro’s administration is working with Tren de Aragua and orchestrating drug trafficking and illegal immigration into the U.S.

Feb. 20

The Trump administration formally designates eight Latin American crime organizations as foreign terrorist organizations.

The label is normally reserved for groups like al-Qaida or the Islamic State that use violence for political ends — not for profit-focused crime rings.

Aug. 19

The U.S. military deploys three guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela.

The naval force in the Caribbean grows within weeks to include three amphibious assault ships and other vessels, carrying about 6,000 sailors and Marines and a variety of aircraft.

The U.S. deploys F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in September, while a Navy submarine carrying cruise missiles operates off South America.

Sept. 2

The U.S. carries out its first strike against what Trump says was a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by Tren de Aragua.

Trump says all 11 people on the boat were killed and posts a short video clip of a small vessel appearing to explode in flames.

Sept. 10

In a letter to the White House, Democratic senators say the Trump administration has provided “no legitimate legal justification” for the strike.

Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says in a floor speech that week that the U.S. military is not “empowered to hunt down suspected criminals and kill them without trial.”

Sept. 15

The U.S. military carries out its second strike against an alleged drug boat, killing three people.

Asked what proof the U.S. has that the vessel was carrying drugs, Trump told reporters that big bags of cocaine and fentanyl were spattered all over the ocean. However, images of what Trump described were not released by the military or the White House.

Sept. 19

Trump says the U.S. military carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug-smuggling vessel. The president says the attack killed three people and intelligence “confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics.”

Several senators and human rights groups continue to question the legality of the strikes, describing them as a potential overreach of executive authority.

Oct. 2

Trump declares drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the U.S. is now in an “armed conflict” with them, according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The memo appears to represent an extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers and draws criticism from some lawmakers, including Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Oct. 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat he accuses of carrying drugs. He says four men were killed but offers no details on who they were or what group they belonged to.

Oct. 8

Senate Republicans vote down legislation that would have required the president to seek authorization from Congress before further military strikes. The vote fell mostly along party lines, 48-51.

Oct. 14

Trump announces the fifth strike against a small boat accused of carrying drugs, saying it killed six people. The president says intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics on a known drug-trafficking route.

Oct. 15

Trump confirms he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and says he is weighing carrying out land operations in the country.

He declines to say whether the CIA has authority to take action against Maduro.

Oct. 16

The Navy admiral who oversees military operations in the region says he will retire in December.

Adm. Alvin Holsey became leader of U.S. Southern Command only the previous November, overseeing an area that encompasses the Caribbean and waters off South America. Such postings typically last three to four years.

Oct. 16

Trump says the U.S. struck a sixth suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, killing two people and leaving two survivors who were on the semi-submersible craft.

The president later says the survivors would be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, “for detention and prosecution.” Repatriation avoided questions about what their legal status would have been in the U.S. justice system.

Oct. 17

The U.S. military attacks a seventh vessel that Hegseth says was carrying “substantial amounts of narcotics” and associated with a Colombian rebel group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN. Three people are killed.

Oct. 20

Rep. Adam Smith, top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, calls for a hearing on the boat strikes.

“Never before in my over 20 years on the committee can I recall seeing a combatant commander leave their post this early and amid such turmoil,” Smith said in a statement of Holsey’s impending departure. “I have also never seen such a staggering lack of transparency on behalf of an Administration and the Department to meaningfully inform Congress on the use of lethal military force.”

Oct. 21

Hegseth says the U.S. military launched its eighth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing two people in the eastern Pacific.

The attack marks an expansion of the military’s targeting area to the waters off South America where much of the cocaine from the world’s largest producers is smuggled.

Oct. 22

Hegseth announces the ninth strike, another in the eastern Pacific, saying three men are killed.

Oct. 24

Hegseth orders the U.S. military’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the region in a significant escalation of military firepower.

Oct. 24

Hegseth says the military conducted the 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, leaving six people dead. He says the vessel was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang.

Oct. 27

Hegseth says three more strikes were carried out in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor.

Hegseth says Mexican authorities “assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue” of the sole survivor, who is presumed dead after Mexico suspended its search after four days.

Oct. 29

Hegseth says the U.S. military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing all four people aboard in the 14th attack.

Oct. 29

Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says the Trump administration briefed Republicans — but not Democrats — on the boat strikes.

The Senate at the time was facing a potential vote on a war powers resolution that would prohibit strikes in or near Venezuela without congressional approval.

Oct. 31

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to be the first such condemnation of its kind from a United Nations organization.

Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for Türk’s office, relayed his message at a briefing: “The U.S. must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats.”

Nov. 1

Hegseth posts another video as he announces the 15th known strike, saying the vessel in the Caribbean was operated by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. He does not name the group and says three people were killed.

Nov. 4

In the 16th known strike, Hegseth posts on social media that two people were killed aboard a vessel in the eastern Pacific.

The same day, the Ford aircraft carrier leaves the Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Caribbean.

Nov. 6

Hegseth announces the 17th known strike, which killed three people.

Nov. 6

Senate Republicans vote to reject legislation that would have limited Trump’s ability to order an attack on Venezuelan soil without congressional authorization.

Lawmakers from both parties had demanded more information on the strikes, but Republicans appeared more willing to give Trump leeway to continue his buildup of naval forces.

Nov. 9

The U.S. military strikes two vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing six people, according to an announcement from Hegseth the following day.

Nov. 10

The 20th known strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs kills four people in the Caribbean, according to a social media post from the U.S. military’s Southern Command.

Nov. 11

Venezuela’s government launches what it says is a “massive” mobilization of troops and volunteers for two days of exercises prompted by the U.S. military buildup.

Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López asserts that Venezuela’s military is “stronger than ever in its unity, morale and equipment.”

Nov. 15

Three people are killed after the U.S. military conducts its 21st strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific, according to a post from Southern Command a day later.

Nov. 16

The Ford arrives in the Caribbean, a major moment in the Trump administration’s show of force.

The aircraft carrier’s arrival brings the total number of troops in the region to around 12,000 on nearly a dozen Navy ships in what Hegseth has dubbed “Operation Southern Spear.”

Nov. 16

Trump says the U.S. “may be having some discussions ” with Maduro and that “Venezuela would like to talk,” without offering details.

“I’ll talk to anybody,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens.”

Dec. 4

Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley appears for closed-door classified briefings at the Capitol as lawmakers begin investigating the strikes. The investigation began following reports that Bradley ordered a follow-on attack that killed the survivors of the first strike on Sept. 2 to comply with Hegesth’s demands.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton later tells reporters that “Bradley was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all.”

Meanwhile, Democrats say they found the video of the entire attack disturbing.

Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, says the survivors were “basically two shirtless people clinging to the bow of a capsized and inoperable boat, drifting in the water — until the missiles come and kill them.”

Dec. 4

Four people are killed in the 22nd strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific, according to a post from Southern Command.

Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela.

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