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Donald Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced

Headline from Florida Politics

The Trump administration justified the strikes by declaring drug cartels ‘unlawful combatants’ and that the U.S. is in an ‘armed conflict’ with them.

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6 articles, oldest first.

  1. Anchorage Daily News

    Trump has accused Latin American boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced (opens Anchorage Daily News)

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    The Associated Press learned the identities of four of the slain men and pieced together details about at least five others.

  2. WDIO Duluth

    Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced (opens WDIO Duluth)

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    One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver. The men had little in common beyond their Venezuelan seaside hometowns and the fact all four were among the more tha…

  3. Florida Politics

    Donald Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced (opens Florida Politics)

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    The Trump administration justified the strikes by declaring drug cartels ‘unlawful combatants’ and that the U.S. is in an ‘armed conflict’ with them.

  4. NPR

    Trump says boat crews are narco-terrorists. The truth is more nuanced, AP finds (opens NPR)

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    In interviews in villages on Venezuela's northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists.

  5. Los Angeles Times

    Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. An AP report finds otherwise (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month.

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