So who were the more than 60 people killed, so far, by the U.S. military in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific? Were they really all the “narco-terrorists” that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has claimed every one of them to be, in his postings announcing each strike?
AP tracked down information in Venezuela on nine of them, including the identities of four. In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had, indeed, been running drugs, but that they were not narco-terrorists, or leaders of a cartel or gang. In short, those AP identified were the lowest of low-level operatives.
