The U.S. military said on Feb. 5 that it killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, the latest in a series of actions under an ongoing campaign to disrupt organized criminal networks the Trump administration has branded as “narco-terrorists.”
The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a statement on X that intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narcotics-trafficking routes and “was engaged in narco-trafficking operations” when it was hit with a “lethal kinetic strike.”
No U.S. military personnel were harmed in the action, which was ordered by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, who earlier in the day assumed leadership of SOUTHCOM, which oversees U.S. military operations across Latin America and the Caribbean….
US Military Strikes Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific, Killing 2
