US EditionU.S. Military Kill 57 in Naval Strikes
Since October 2025, the U.S. military has destroyed 14 suspected drug boats and killed 57 traffickers in efforts to curb drug flow from Venezuela-linked operations.
- On Oct. 27, the United States military struck four boats in three attacks, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
- Since mid-October, the administration has increased the frequency of strikes, targeting nine separate boats after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office.
- Since September the U.S. has attacked 13 times, destroying 14 ships and killing 57 people, with 40 killed over the past month of October.
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen said the Armed Services Committee recently had a classified briefing where attendees expressed legal basis questions and warned the strikes put U.S. service members at risk.
- Claiming the strikes save lives, the administration points to a 25,000-per-boat figure, but drug policy specialists say Venezuela plays a minor role while fentanyl usually comes from Mexico.
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KSBWUS military kills 57 in naval strikes
In the past two months, the U.S. has hit 14 boats accused of carrying drugs.
With the strikes in the Caribbean, at least 57 people have died similarly since early September.
Mexico reiterated on Wednesday its rejection of the lethal attacks launched by the United States against boats of alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and the Pacific, which have left at least 57 dead, but President Claudia Sheinbaum said she was willing to improve binational joint operations to intercept suspicious vessels and arrest their members.
The United States Secretary of Defense, Peter Hegseth, announced these last three attacks left 14 people dead and one survivor, whose rescue efforts were left in charge of the Mexican authorities without specifying the nationality of the man. Caracas. To 57 was raised the number of people killed after the operation undertaken by States [...] The entry 57 dead are recorded since the beginning of the operation of the United States in the Caribbean…
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