Drug cartels in the Caribbean are reportedly adapting their smuggling routes to avoid the deployment of U.S. warships in the region, largely meant to put pressure on Venezuela's authoritarian regime.
The administration has conducted at least five strikes against vessels that the administration claimed were transporting drugs that would ultimately be smuggled into the U.S. The Dominican Republic confirmed that was the case in one of them, claiming that it scattered 375 packages of cocaine into the sea after killing three people.
