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The U.S. military's latest onslaught connected an alleged drug-trafficking vessel successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean killed 2 men connected Friday (May 8, 2026) portion leaving 1 survivor.
Video posted connected societal media by U.S. Southern Command shows a black, boat-shaped representation earlier what appears to beryllium an explosion, followed by a file of occurrence rising from the ocean.
On May 8, astatine the absorption of #SOUTHCOM commandant Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic onslaught connected a vas operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vas was transiting on known narco-trafficking… pic.twitter.com/YFLQNZufRx
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) May 9, 2026Southern Command said it “immediately notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue strategy for the survivor.” The White House announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump has signed disconnected connected a caller U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating cause cartels successful the Western Hemisphere arsenic the administration's highest priority.
The Trump administration's run of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels successful Latin American waters, including the eastbound Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, has gone connected since aboriginal September and killed astatine slightest 193 radical successful total. The subject has not provided grounds that immoderate of the vessels were carrying drugs. The strikes person ramped up again successful caller weeks.
At the aforesaid time, Mr. Trump has sought to property determination leaders to enactment much intimately with the U.S. to people cartels and instrumentality subject enactment themselves against cause traffickers and transnational gangs that helium says airs an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere's nationalist security.
Critics, meanwhile, person questioned the wide legality of the vessel strikes.
