Remarks of John Walsh Director for Drug Policy and the Andes, OAS/CICAD Seventy-Eighth Regular Session |
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John Walsh
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OAS/CICAD Seventy-Eighth Regular Session Washington, D.C. Sixth Plenary Session
December 18, 2025
On September 2, President Trump ordered the U.S. military to destroy a boat in the Caribbean that was alleged to be smuggling illicit drugs.
Multiple attacks on that boat eventually killed all 11 people on board.
The legality of those strikes are now the subject of intense concern in the U.S. Congress.
As of today, the U.S. military has carried out 26 attacks against so-called “drug boats” in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific, resulting in 99 deaths.
The Trump administration has sought to........