This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

The New World Report.

We march to the sound of gunfire in many directions.

Professor Evan Ellis, the Latin American Research Professor of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

We begin with U.S. kills four men in the latest strike on suspect drug vessel.

This is a statement by the Secretary of Defense.

Mr. Hegg said.

This vessel, like all others, he said, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit

narcotic smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying narcotics.

This is in a post on X from the Secretary of Defense.

Higgs' post included a 22-second video clip of boat and water that gets struck and explodes.

We've seen this before.

However, this is the latest episode.

It's important now to go to details elsewhere where there is a photograph, a striking photograph,

and Reuters this morning, I don't urge

you to look at it if you're reluctant to participate in mass death, but it's a lineup in

the streets of, we're told Brazil, of corpses, all related to drug running activities, identifying this is not about the U.S.

and Venezuela.

This is about narco-terrorism in the continent, which is preying on the people of South America

and Central America quite the same way it's preying on the people of the United

States. It's not all demand. It's also gunfire. And then there's a report from Ecuador of violence

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