U.S. Military Blows Up Suspected Smuggling Boat, Killing 2

0:00It's April 25th. Welcome to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. US military forces just hit another boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, accused of hauling drugs, and it took out two people on board. This fits into a bigger push by the Trump team that kicked off back in early September, blowing up these suspected smuggling ships across Latin, American waters, and the Caribbean Sea, with at least 183 folks killed so far. Thing is, they've never shown hard proof that drugs were actually on any of those boats. Trump's framing it as straight-up armed conflict against the cartels, saying these strikes are key to cutting off the drug flow hitting the US, streets. But critics are pushing back hard, calling the whole boat-busting strategy into question on legal grounds. All this ramps up alongside the biggest US military footprint in the region in decades, letting the stage for that January raid-naving former. Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro, he's in New York now facing drug trafficking charges

1:03and entered a not guilty plea. Southern Command dropped video of Friday's fiery blast on X to back their claim of hitting a known smuggling path, but the debate over evidence and rules of engagement keeps heating up as these ops roll on.