From Drug War to Military Conflict

On September 2nd, somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, a U.S. military drone spotted

what it was looking for, a 12-meter-long wooden boat. Boats like this

are common here. They're used by fishermen and by drug traffickers. Usually,

U.S. forces would intercept and search it, but this time they didn't stop it.

They blew it up. Two weeks later, another boat was destroyed. Then another,

and another, and another. Donald Trump claimed the people killed in these strikes

were drug traffickers, members of violent cartels, and that this was only the beginning.

"To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States," Trump said. "Please be warned,