US strikes vessel in Caribbean, killing three
- The U.S. military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea on September 9, killing three people labeled as narco-terrorists tied to drug trafficking based on confirmed intelligence.
- Operation Southern Spear, managed by Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere under the direction of U.S. Southern Command, has carried out 67 strikes since at least August 2025 targeting drug traffickers and disrupting cartel networks.
- President Donald Trump described the campaign as an armed conflict with Latin American cartels to prevent narcotics from reaching American communities and causing overdoses, with plans to extend operations to allied Latin American countries.
- Human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the ACLU have criticized the strikes as unlawful extrajudicial killings and questioned the legality and evidence behind the military actions.
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The secretary strongly defended the controversial military operations against vessels suspected of drug trafficking in Pacific and Caribbean waters
THE US military has killed three alleged smugglers in the Caribbean, in what human rights groups and the UN have condemned as unlawful extrajudicial killings.
Three people have been killed in a US strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean as part of Washington's operations against drug trafficking. The US military said on Wednesday that three people had been killed in an attack on a speedboat in the Caribbean, adding to a series of similar ones over the past year against “narco-terrorists,” the terminology used by Washington, whose legitimacy is disputed by non-governmental advocacy organizations. human…
The U.S. military again attacked a boat with narco-terrorists in the Caribbean, killing three people, reporting to the United States Forces Southern Command.
South American Command South Command announced that US troops had carried out a military strike on a fast boat in the Caribbean Sea, at dawn on Thursday, killing three people, allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
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