US EditionUS military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats
The U.S. military's campaign against drug trafficking vessels has killed 145 people in 42 strikes since September, targeting boats along known smuggling routes, officials said.
- On Monday night, U.S. Southern Command said it struck three alleged drug‑trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people.
- The White House told Congress that President Donald Trump has determined the U.S. is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels, with SOUTHCOM saying `Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations.`
- SOUTHCOM posted videos showing boats being destroyed, including a 39‑second video clip of two stationary vessels and one moving vessel, with strikes directed by Marine Corps Gen. Francis Donovan, SOUTHCOM commander.
- Legal and congressional critics say the strikes likely amount to extrajudicial killings and have alarmed congressional critics despite U.S. lawmakers allowing them without prior approval.
- Combined with previous strikes, the campaign that began in early September has brought the reported death toll of at least 145 people, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this month some cartels have ceased operations.
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The U.S. Armed Forces announced on February 17 that they have destroyed three other narco-lanches in the Pacific and the Caribbean, in an operation that has left eleven dead in total. The three attacks occurred in the framework of Operation South Lance, which the U.S. has been implementing since last September in the area of responsibility of the Southern Command (Central America, South America and the Caribbean) and which was activated with the…
The three boats sailed in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Eleven men accused by Washington of transporting drugs were killed in strikes on their ships, two in the Pacific and one in the Caribbean.
11 killed in US strikes on 3 more alleged drug boats
The US military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest days of the Trump administration’s months-long campaign against alleged traffickers. The series of strikes conducted Monday brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels since early September…
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