A scorched 30-foot-long boat, two mangled bodies, charred jerrycans, life jackets and dozens of empty packets smelling like marijuana washed up last month on a beach near Puerto López in Colombia’s Guajira Peninsula on the Gulf of Venezuela coast, serving as evidence of the United States’ ongoing strike campaign against narco-trafficking vessels in the Southern Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, according to The New York Times as shared on X over the past hour. The New York Times described the debris as some of the only physical evidence seen so far of the U.S. campaign, with the incident occurring last month on the Colombian coast bordering Venezuela. This report emerges amid U.S.-Venezuela tensions, including U.S. Marines with the 22nd MEU(SOC) conducting maritime interdiction training in the Caribbean Sea earlier on December 31, as posted by @22nd_MEU on X.
