US EditionCoast Guard Paints Grim Picture of Search for Dec. 30 Boat Strike Survivors
- On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said it is still searching in the eastern Pacific Ocean after U.S. strikes, with survival odds diminishing.
- Under President Donald Trump, U.S. forces have been striking suspected drug boats since early September as part of Operation Southern Spear, with U.S. Southern Command saying a three-boat convoy was targeted on December 30.
- Amid 40-knot winds and nine-foot seas, a HC-130J plane based in Sacramento and a Coast Guard C-130 were deployed to search over 1,000 nautical miles, coordinating more than 65 hours with partner nations and AMVER vessels.
- After several days, Mexican authorities halted their search while Colombian President Gustavo Petro said survivors jumped into the sea, reported three dead, and signaled possible international legal remedies.
- Across the campaign, there have been more than 30 strikes and at least 115 reported deaths, and the military released video claiming narcotics transfers but provided no physical evidence, prompting legal scrutiny from regional critics and some Democratic lawmakers.
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A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed 115
By Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US military has killed 115 people in strikes that have destroyed 36 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There have been several survivors of those strikes, two of whom were briefly detained by the US Navy before being returned to their home countries. Another is presumed dead after a search by the Mexican Nav…
The U.S. Coast Guard stated on Friday that it continued to search for people in the eastern Pacific Ocean who had jumped boats suspected of drug trafficking when the U.S. Army attacked those ships a few days earlier, thereby reducing the chances of survival.
At least 110 people have been killed in such attacks since September.
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US Coast Guard searches for survivors of boat strikes as odds diminish days later
The Coast Guard said it's still searching for people who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. military attacked them days earlier.
Coast Guard paints grim picture of search for Dec. 30 boat strike survivors
The U.S. Coast Guard painted a grim picture Friday of its ongoing search for the survivors of a Dec. 30, 2025, strike on an alleged drug-trafficking convoy in the Pacific Ocean that the military said killed at least three people. The Coast Guard said Friday that it is coordinating the search with multiple vessels, including…
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