This is The Guardian.

Today, why is Trump sending warships to the Caribbean?

It started with a video, an aerial shot in grainy, black and white of a fishing boat

travelling through the waters of the coast of Venezuela. Suddenly there's a flash of light and

the boat is just gone. Andrew Roth, the Guardian's Global Affairs correspondent, knew this US air strike was the start of something big.

We had seen these kinds of strikes before and we've seen them as Americans for years and decades now,

but often that is many thousands of miles away, far across the ocean where US forces have been sent.

My first thought was basically that this is Afghanistan or this is Iraq come to the Western

Hemisphere.

That was September 2nd.

Since then, 18 more boats that we know of have been blown out of the water, killing at least 76 people.

Donald Trump, who ordered the strikes, says he's acting to protect the American people from so-called narco-terrorists.

We're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.

Okay? We're going to kill them. You know? They're going to be like dead.

Okay.

The International Criminal Court has denounced these killings as illegal,

but they were only the beginning.

Trump's now ordered the biggest US naval deployment in the Caribbean

since the Cuban missile crisis.

He sent aircraft carriers, 10,000 troops,

and there's a $50 million bounty on the head

of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,

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