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Administration defends Pacific strikes against narcotics networks, blames Venezuela-linked transshipment and cites regional partners
Summary
An unidentified administration official described recent Pacific strikes as operations against narcotics networks tracked at sea and said the operations were aimed at well-funded transshipment groups that the official tied to elements of the Venezuelan government.
An unidentified administration official described recent strikes in the Pacific as operations against well-funded drug cartels the official called “narcoterrorists,” and said those actions were based on intelligence tracking maritime shipments.
The official said the operations targeted boats and shipments that were tracked from their formation through coordination and transit. “I can assure you that every 1 of these strikes involves boats and shipments that were tracked from the very beginning,”…
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