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US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats
The strikes targeted vessels on known drug routes, killing 11 alleged narco-terrorists, raising the death toll to at least 145 since September, U.S. Southern Command 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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US murders 11 people with airstrikes on boats in both Caribbean and Pacific
The US military killed 11 people Monday in strikes on three boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, in the deadliest single day of the Trump administration’s killing spree off the Latin American coast since September.
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.
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