Overview

• Trump said U.S. forces hit a small vessel in Southcom’s area of responsibility, killing three people, and he posted a video purporting to show the explosion.
• He labeled the dead as “narcoterrorists” on a known trafficking route and asserted the boat was in international waters; the Pentagon gave no additional details on timing or location.
• Reporting now counts 17 people killed in recent U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats, as UN human-rights experts condemn the operations as unlawful and call for investigations.
• Venezuela intensified readiness with civilian weapons training in Caracas and other cities following military exercises on La Orchila, while officials decried alleged extrajudicial killings.
• Separately, Trump threatened “unforeseeable” consequences if Venezuela does not accept certain deportees he describes as prisoners and psychiatric patients.