Overview
- U.S. Southern Command released video and said it destroyed a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean in a strike that killed two men.
- A separate strike in the eastern Pacific killed three men on a vessel the U.S. said was running drug operations.
- The military labeled some occupants as “narcoterrorists” and said certain boats were run by designated terrorist organizations.
- Human rights groups and U.N. experts condemned the actions as extrajudicial killings that violate international law.
- News reports now count about 190 deaths linked to the months-long campaign, which Southcom has promoted on X without public proof that each target carried drugs.