2025 U.S. Strikes on Venezuelan Vessels
- Publisher
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Published
- 2026-09-09
- Type
- reference
- Link
- https://www.britannica.com/event/2025-US-Strikes-on-Venezuelan-Vessels
- Last checked
- 2026-10-26
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- reference only — we link and describe; we do not republish the text.
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Defense and Security
More than 200 killed at sea without a trial: the boat strikes, the 'armed conflict' memo and the second strike on survivors
Since September 2025 the US military has destroyed more than 60 small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing over 210 people labeled 'unlawful combatants' without public evidence; survivors of the first strike were killed by a second.