One might imagine that evidence of the cargo carried could be easily scooped up. The entire seventh fleet is off of Aruba & Venezuela. Perhaps its the arrogance of Trump where he doesn't need to prove anything. thinking the count is up to 17 boats attacked by US Armed Forces.
As of the 17th it is 21 boats and 82 deaths with 3 survivors. No drugs have been recovered that I know of.
U.S.A.I.D. had helped to contain twenty-one outbreaks of deadly disease, sustain Ukraine’s health system after Russia’s invasion, combat H.I.V., tuberculosis, and polio, and reduce maternal and child deaths worldwide. An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades. As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children. The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands USAID food for nearly 30,000 hungry kids to be destroyed
Venezuelan smugglers have been shot after the US military disabled the boat. One of the most gripping passages in Orwell's 1984, is a propaganda movie where a refugee raft is shot up by a helicopter gunship. The inner-party members cheer the mayhem. Orwell describes a mother hugging her child against the bullets.
Heinz-Wilhelm Eck commander of the German submarine U-852 was executed by firing squad on 30 November 1945 by order of the Hamburg war trials. Why? Because after sinking the Peleus he ordered his deck guns to fire into the wreckage killing four men clinging to debris.