After the Trump administration excluded Democratic senators from a classified briefing on the series of deadly US military attacks against boats at sea, various voices accused that such operations represent more murders than a strategy anti-drug efforts.

Democratic refuted the Trump administration's claim of following a real "strategy" to curb alleged fentanyl trafficking through the bombings of at least fifteen vessels suspected of carrying drugs, denouncing these attacks as simply "murder."

"I haven't heard about a strategy, or the ultimate goal, or an assessment of how they're going to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, which, by the way, is something that needs to be done," said Jason Crow, a member of the House of Representatives, after leaving a hearing where Pentagon officials were to provide details of the US military's attacks on alleged drug-laden boats that have left approximately 60 dead.

The House Armed Services Committee held a closed-door meeting, one day after organizing a similar briefing just for Republicans.

The day before, US forces carried out their fifteenth attack against an alleged drug-running boat since the president ordered the start of the military campaign against drug trafficking.

“We have to take the flow of drugs seriously, and today I heard nothing that demonstrates how they are going to stop it. In fact, as I leave this briefing, I I am even more concerned about whether or not they have a serious plan to do so. I have not heard any serious, comprehensive plan to address the drug problem in the US,” Crow said.

For her part, Sara Jacobs, a Democratic legislator from California, wrote in X upon leaving the briefing that neither “the lawyers nor the intelligence professionals showed up.”

“I heard nothing to prove otherwise: these attacks are illegal. They are murderers. And they should stop immediately.”

she added.

Since Trump ordered the first attack and declared that the US is in a formal “armed conflict” with the drug cartels, attacks from legislators, especially Democrats,have not ceased, denouncing the lack of respect for the separation of powers and the sovereignty of the legislature.

Furthermore, internationally, other voices are accusing the US of violating international law, such as the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who accused Donald Trump of committing “extrajudicial executions” in his attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

In “these types of maneuvers, which we believe violate international law, the United States (…) is committing extrajudicial executions,” declared Petro, who demanded that the alleged drug traffickers be brought to justice and not killed.

For her part, the director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Juanita Goebertus, reiterated that this is of “extrajudicial executions.”

“The US attacks on vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific constitute extrajudicial executions. Whether or not they are drug traffickers, there is no armed conflict that authorizes this. use of force. These acts must be judged and punished,” Goebertus stated.