U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches "Operation Southern Spear"

[Uncle Joe]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. “80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch. The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don't know who has been killed.

“Progressives and people of goodwill — of the U.S. and Puerto Rico — it's time for those of us here to stand up and say that where we will not support any attempt to bring back the old gunboat diplomacy and to invade another Latin American country, and we need to do it soon, because this stuff is moving very quickly,” says Democracy Now!’s Juan González.

[gab13by13]

1. Whiskey Pete better have a talk with Putin and Xi,

before doing anything stupid. Unwashed Magats will not like a war with Venezuela.

[ChicagoTeamster]

2. US Special Forces and 7th ID have been doing "drug interdiction" in Latin America for years. And then there's DEA, CIA

So how do they expect us to believe that after all these years of the "War On Drugs", that invading a country that doesn't produce marijuana, Fentanyl, Opium, or Cocaine is going to make a difference. Didn't the leader of the opposition party in Venezuela just get a Nobel Peace Prize? Oh, but they have the largest proven oil reserves and PDVSA has already had refineries in the US for years so we're ready to go.