Natalie Kitro-Eff

Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Today's episode was produced by Diana Nguyen, Rob Zipko, Stella Tan, Ricky Nowetzki, and Jessica Chung.

It was edited by Mark George and Brendan Klinkenberg, with help from Michael Benoit.

Contains music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker, and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Chris Wood.

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From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitro-Eff.

This is The Daily.

One by one over the past few weeks, three boats in the Caribbean Sea have been blown up by the U.S.

military, killing all 17 people aboard.

Each time, President Trump has claimed that the boats were carrying drugs to the U.S.

and that those killed were narco-terrorists.

But he's offered no concrete evidence to back up that claim.

Today, my colleague Charlie Savage on what he's learned about what may be the true objective behind these airstrikes and whether any of this is even legal.

It's Thursday, September 25th.

Charlie, it's great to have you.

We've come to you to talk about what's been happening off the coast of Venezuela over the past month.

We've now seen three separate U.S.

military strikes on boats that American officials say were carrying drugs.