Overview

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Operation Pacific Viper has seized 34 tonnes of cocaine and detained 59 suspects since early August.
• DHS published footage showing U.S. Coast Guard personnel boarding a vessel alleged to be carrying drugs.
• Venezuela is conducting the second day of its Caribe Soberano 200 exercises around La Orchila with 22 aircraft, 12 warships, 20 militia boats, drones, and roughly 2,500 personnel.
• The U.S. government reported that three people died in an attack on a suspected narcotics vessel at sea earlier this week.
• Venezuelan authorities allege U.S. Navy marines from the destroyer USS Jason Dunham hostilely boarded a local fishing boat within Venezuela’s exclusive economic zone near La Blanquilla.