It's at least the 15th such strike carried out by the #US #military in the #Caribbean or eastern #Pacific since early September.

…The US military has now killed at least 64 people in the strikes.

#Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the US. He has asserted the US is engaged in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels, relying on the same #legal authority used by the Bush admin when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.