{"id":244950,"date":"2025-09-21T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:05:11","slug":"dominican-republic-says-it-confiscated-cocaine-that-was-on-speed-boat-destroyed-by-us-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244950\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic says it confiscated cocaine that was on speed boat destroyed by US Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, as the Trump administration carries out a controversial anti-narcotics mission<\/a> in the southern Caribbean.<\/p>\n

In a press conference, the Dominican Republic\u2019s National Directorate for Drug Control said it recovered 377 packages of cocaine from the boat which was allegedly carrying 1,000 kilos of the drug.<\/p>\n

Officials said the boat was destroyed about 80 nautical miles south of Isla Beata, a small island that belongs to the Dominican Republic. They said the Dominican\u2019s Republic Navy worked in conjunction with U.S. authorities to locate the speedboat which was allegedly trying to dock in the Dominican Republic and use the nation as a \u201cbridge\u201d to transport cocaine to the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time in history that the United States and the Dominican Republic carry out a joint operation against narco terrorism in the Caribbean,\u201d the directorate said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In August, the U.S. sent eight warships<\/a> and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, in what the Trump administration has said was a mission to fight drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

The White House says the flotilla has destroyed three speedboats carrying drugs so far in separate strikes that have killed more than a dozen people aboard the vessels.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups have said the strikes on the boats amount to extra judicial killings, and on Friday two Democratic senators introduced a resolution in Congress that seeks to block the administration from carrying out further strikes.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration says at least two of the boats that have been sunk left from Venezuela, whose president is often described by White House officials as a drug trafficker and leader of a gang known as the Cartel of the Suns.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro denies the charges and has described the U.S naval build up in the Caribbean as an attack on his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[30368,1613,14505,69,20228,57,1612,50,92550,80,25730,67,370,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-244950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-caribbean","10":"tag-central-america","11":"tag-dominican-republic","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-drug-crimes","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-latin-america","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nicolas-maduro","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-u-s-navy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-government","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115244796400218162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}