The boats were manned by “mostly” fishermen. And Vito Corleone was mostly an olive oil importer.
The boats were manned by “mostly” fishermen. And Vito Corleone was mostly an olive oil importer.
When one of the ass hole AP “journalists” kids die from an OD, will they nuance that?
Part time massive drug smugglers!
The gist of the “nuance” is that, yes these were drug running boats owned by narco-terrorists, but some of the crew were just doing it as a side gig, because they’re poor and needed the money. Some of these part time drug smugglers even work as fisherman when they’re not crewing on board drug running boats. Are you feeling sorry for them yet? Me neither.
Pays better than mackerel.
Ah. So, basically, they were the equivalent of Uber drivers.
The way it works in drug production countries is “plomo o plata” lead or silver. These cartel leaders are no piloting the drug boats. We know who they are.... send the military after the heads of the snakes.
Fishing boats with Maryland fathers on them.
Yeah, I don’t know, man, I’m not a fisherman but it seems to that fishing with your four 250hp Mercury engines wide open would kind of just rip the lips off the fish. But, I’m mo Bill Dance so I could be wrong. 🤷
The new definition for Venezuela drug boats, will from hereon be ‘nuanced boats’.
We could extend that definition to people dealing in the illegal drug trafficking. Those importing illegal drugs into the U.S., will be ‘nuanced people’
I think all AP employees should head down to Venezuela and get on the boats that are headed here to the U.S. You know, for research purposes.
The AP is controlled by communists and is a propaganda platform.
Apparently we’re supposed to feel sorry for the pirates — like w were told to do in Somalia — and we should invite hundreds of thousands of them to Minneapolis.
AP reporters should go an act as human shields for these poor beleaguered fishermen/drug runners.
The issue isn’t whether they were drug boats or not.
The criteria for attack was that intelligence showed that they were controlled by designated terrorist organizations (”DTO”s), like Tren De Aragua, and the modality of criminal operation is only politically relevant. Could also be human smuggling, gun running, jewelry, etc.
Note that in all cases the DoW noted that the boats were identified with Intel that they were in fact part of a DTO operation, not some campesinos just trying to get extra cash for tortillas.
The videos that I’ve seen of the boats being destroyed sure as hell weren’t fishing boats.
Every boat that has been hit: The US ‘knows’ who is on them, when they leave where they are going, and what they are hauling. If you haul for the cartels, you are working for them.
Sorry, not sorry. These guys knew what they were getting into. The bigger the payout, the bigger the risk. They knew what the cargo was and they knew the danger.