Overview
- UN human rights chief Volker Türk, via his office's spokesperson in Geneva, said the U.S. boat strikes violate international humanitarian law and must stop.
- The Washington Post reported that the U.S. military says it has destroyed at least nine fast boats near Venezuela, with more than 60 people killed, about half between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
- The Pentagon released video of one strike and said six suspected traffickers were killed in that incident.
- U.S. forces have surged into the Caribbean with the carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, several destroyers, a nuclear submarine, patrol aircraft, and roughly 10,000 personnel.
- Miami Herald, citing sources, reported possible U.S. airstrikes inside Venezuela within hours or days, as The New York Times reported the administration ended diplomatic outreach and authorized CIA covert operations.