U.S. Defense Secretary Hagerseth said on the 22nd that the U.S. military sank a "drug trafficking ship" in international waters in the eastern Pacific on the 21st, killing two people.

According to US media reports, the incident happened near the Pacific coast of Colombia. This is the eighth ship sunk by the US military on the high seas in the name of combating drug trafficking since September, and it is also the first time that such military operations have been carried out in the Pacific Ocean. Earlier, the U.S. military attacked a number of so-called "drug trafficking ships" in the waters near Venezuela on the grounds of "combating drug trafficking", killing dozens of people.

Venezuela has repeatedly accused the United States of attempting to bring about regime change in Venezuela through military threats and military expansion in Latin America. (CCTV reporter Xu Xiao)