Overview

• President Donald Trump reported a new lethal strike on a small vessel in the Southern Command’s area, saying three suspected traffickers were killed in what would be the fourth such Caribbean action since August.
• Trump shared video of the strike and did not specify the boat’s origin or crew nationality, while Venezuela staged military maneuvers near La Orchila and denounced the U.S. deployment as a threat that Washington says is focused on narcotrafficking.
• Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum asked the federal prosecutor’s office to verify a witness statement that could touch Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández, stressing there is “nothing so far” that incriminates him.
• Hernán Bermúdez Requena, the ex‑security chief in Tabasco linked by authorities to ‘La Barredora,’ was moved to the Altiplano prison under a February arrest order for organized crime, extortion and express kidnapping.
• In Spain, Junts froze its backing for Pedro Sánchez in Congress without breaking ties as the opposition PP escalated attacks over failures in offender-monitoring bracelets that prosecutors say led to many dismissals and acquittals, while in Peru two parties urged authorities to reject any pre‑election proscription without unequivocal proof.