The U.S. is sending 10 F-35 stealth fighters to Puerto Rico in a move the Pentagon says will strengthen operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean. According to Reuters, the aircraft will arrive next week as part of a wider military campaign launched after Tuesday’s strike on a speedboat in the southern Caribbean that officials said killed 11 suspected Venezuelan traffickers.

“What will stop them is when you blow them up,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in remarks reported by the Guardian following a meeting in Mexico City. He added that similar operations “will happen again.”

The announcement follows what the Department of Defense described as a “highly provocative move” on Thursday, when two Venezuelan fighter jets flew near the USS Jason Dunham, a guided-missile destroyer o

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