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The defense secretary said 14 people were killed and there was one survivor. The U.S. alerted Mexico, whose navy said it hasn’t found the survivor.
Mexico is worried American missile attacks on drug-laden boats at sea will eventually result in the loss of Mexican lives. That’s why Foreign Minister Juan Ramon
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily briefing Tuesday that she asked the foreign affairs secretary and the Secretary of the Navy to meet with the U.S. ambassador in Mexico to discuss a recent attack on alleged drug-running boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Trump administration has been blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean — and now one in the Pacific — claiming without evidence that they’re “drug boats.” These are extrajudicial executions outside any system of law.