A five-month investigation has revealed the names of 13 victims of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s airstrikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The Trump administration is thought to have killed almost 200 people in what it has described as an effort to stop “narco-terrorists” from bringing drugs into the U.S. The report, the work of 20 journalists at the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism, revealed that the 13 came from poor backgrounds across the Caribbean and Latin America. CLIP co-founder María Teresa Ronderos said, “What is actually happening is that young people living in extremely precarious conditions, doing whatever work they can to support their families, are being targeted.” “There are communities where they stopped fishing for several weeks—and if they do that, people go hungry—because they were terrified of being bombed.” She said the report shows “that these were flesh-and-blood people.” Three were already identified after their families sued the White House. Eight victims were Venezuelan, three Colombian, two Ecuadorian, two Trinidadian, and one Saint Lucian. Their names were Juan Carlos Fuentes, Luis Ramón Amundarain, Eduard Hidalgo, Dushak Milovcic, Robert Sánchez, Jesús Carreño, Eduardo Jaime, Luis Alí Martínez, Alejandro Andrés Carranza Medina, Ronald Arregocés, Adrián Lubo, Pedro Ramón Holguín Holguín, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Solórzano, Chad Joseph, Rishi Samaroo, and Ricky Joseph.
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