[Global Network Reporter Suo Yanqi] According to Agence France-Presse, Venezuelan President Maduro said on the 29th that the country intercepted three planes allegedly used for drug trafficking. On the same day, U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that the U.S. military attacked "drug trafficking ships" in the Pacific that day, killing four people.

¡°The day before... a drug trafficking aircraft entered the Caribbean Sea. Our aircraft (system) detected it in a second,¡± Maduro said at an official event that day, ¡°Today, two other drug trafficking aircraft entered from the north.

Meanwhile, the French news agency said that Hertz said on the social platform X on Monday that the U.S. military sank one ¡°drug trafficking ship¡± earlier that day in international waters in the East Pacific, killing four people on board. The video accompanied by the relevant post showed that a ship floated statically on the surface, followed by a violent explosion and triggered fire.

Washington has not yet disclosed any evidence to show that its targets have been smuggling drugs or posing a threat to the U.S. The latest military strike means that U.S. military actions on alleged drug trafficking vessels have killed at least 61 people.

Before Hagerseth released the news of the attack, he said on the 28th that the US military sank four "drug trafficking ships" in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on the 27th, killing 14 people on board and surviving one. According to the Associated Press, this was the strike with the largest number of casualties in a single day since the U.S. government launched an "anti-drug" operation in South American waters. It was also the first time that the U.S. military announced multiple strikes in one day.

It is understood that the "anti-drug" operation has aggravated the tension between the United States, Venezuela and Colombia. In addition, at the beginning of this month, the U.S. government submitted a memorandum to Congress, saying that the United States and drug trafficking groups identified by the United States as terrorist organizations are "in a non-international armed conflict". Many * lawmakers in the United States questioned the legality of these crackdowns.