The US military announced yesterday, Tuesday, that it killed five people in an air strike that targeted a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in an attack that is the latest in a series of attacks that Washington claims are aimed at "drug terrorists", but which human rights experts condemn and describe as extrajudicial killings.

The US military announced yesterday, Tuesday, that it killed five people in an air strike that targeted a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in an attack that is the latest in a series of attacks that Washington claims are aimed at "drug terrorists", but which human rights experts condemn and describe as extrajudicial killings.