Regina Garcia Cano was the reporter behind The Associated Press’ story that provided the first comprehensive account and identification of some of the men killed in recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats.
In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives told Garcia Cano the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists, as alleged by the Trump administration, or leaders of a cartel or gang.
