As recently as July, the U.S. Coast Guard, intercepting a suspected drug smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela, disabled its engine with a well-aimed sniper shot. But that was then. As of Tuesday, issued new orders. Drug smugglers would be treated as enemy combatants posing an imminent threat, and therefore, the U.S. military would be authorized to use lethal force without giving the suspects any chance to surrender.

“On my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists … a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,” Trump p

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