Less than a third of Americans approve of US strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific, a poll has found, after the Pentagon announced its Southern Spear operation in South America.
About 29 per cent of Americans approve of using the US military for extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers operating in the region, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found.
The poll showed 27 per cent of Republicans opposed the strikes, while 58 per cent supported it. Three quarters of Democrats opposed the practice compared to one in 10 who supported it.
American forces have been carrying out series of strikes on boats alleged to be carrying narcotics towards the US. The strikes began primarily in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela but they have been expanded to include the Pacific in recent
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