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Southern Command said intelligence tied the vessel to narco-trafficking routes, and the campaign has killed at least 185 people since early September.
- On Sunday, a U.S. Southern Command military strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people, with the command posting a video showing the vessel exploding.
- President Donald Trump has described the U.S. as being in "armed conflict" with cartels in Latin America, justifying the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem drug flows into the United States.
- The campaign of destroying alleged drug-trafficking vessels has killed at least 186 people since early September, with activity ramping up to at least eight boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific this month.
- Critics have questioned the overall legality of the strikes, as the military has not provided evidence that any targeted vessels carried drugs; Southern Command maintains it targeted alleged traffickers along known smuggling routes.
- These strikes occur amid the largest U.S. military presence in the region in generations, while the military refuses to discuss specific sources or methods for operational security reasons.
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Trump’s SOUTHCOM Vaporizes Another Drug Boat, Three Narco-Terrorists Dead
President Trump's war on the cartels just delivered another unmistakable message in the Eastern Pacific. Another suspected narco-terrorist drug boat has been taken off the water. Three male narco-terrorists were killed, and U.S. Southern Command says no American forces were harmed. SOUTHCOM released the footage from the April 26 strike here: On April 26, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern …
Boat Strike Death Toll Approaches 200 as Trump Administration Continues Murders at Sea
The murder spree being conducted by the U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth climbed to an estimated 185 people on Sunday after the Pentagon announced another bombing of a boat it claims was trafficking illegal narcotics. “On April 26, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear… Source
Another strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific
The U.S. military killed three “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Sunday, U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) claimed on social media. In a video posted on social platform X, the command showed a boat moving across the water for several seconds before it exploded into flames. Southcom repeated…
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