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Trump Announces $5 M Bounty After Extrajudicial Killing

6/13/2026

Summary

Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores was killed in a strike while rights groups called it an extrajudicial killing and said he was indicted in New York on racketeering and terrorism support.
Venezuelan authorities confirmed Guerrero's death.
The administration, after 200 airstrikes on boats that killed without evidence, offered $5 million for information on Guerrero and used case to deport migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

History

Historical Context

The United States launched its first lethal drone strike on November 3 2002, when a CIA-operated Predator killed al-Qaeda operative Abu Ali al-Harithi and five others in Yemen. That attack opened a campaign that produced about 98 Yemeni drone strikes through 2015 and set a precedent later used by Obama’s high-level approval system, which Trump dismantled in October 2017, enabling the recent strike on Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores was killed in a strike while rights groups called it an extrajudicial killing and said he was indicted in New York on racketeering and terrorism support.
Venezuelan authorities confirmed Guerrero's death.
The administration, after 200 airstrikes on boats that killed without evidence, offered $5 million for information on Guerrero and used case to deport migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

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