DrugSmuggling

U.S. forces killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X late yesterday, renewing a contentious campaign that has drawn mounting legal scrutiny. Southern Command said the attacks hit “three vessels being operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” killing four people on each of two boats in the Eastern Pacific and three on a third boat in the Caribbean. No U.S. military personnel were harmed, the command…

US military says strike on suspected narco-trafficking boat in Eastern Pacific kills two; Coast Guard searches for survivor The US military said it killed two alleged drug traffickers in a strike on a boat in the Eastern Pacific, as the Coast Guard searched for a third person seen in video footage who survived the blast. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a post on X that “intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The United States hit and destroyed a docking area used by alleged Venezuelan drug boats, President Donald Trump said, in what could amount to the first land strike of his administration’s anti-trafficking campaign in Latin America. “There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “So, we hit all the boats and now we hit the area, it’s the implementation…

U.S. Says It Conducted Second Strike on Suspected Venezuelan Drug Boat in International Waters President Donald Trump announced on social media that U.S. forces carried out a strike on a vessel linked to a Venezuelan drug cartel, saying three people were killed and that the operation took place in international waters. The president described it as a “SECOND Kinetic Strike” ordered by him against “positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of…