{"id":535897,"date":"2026-03-21T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:31:06","slug":"u-s-strike-in-pacific-leaves-one-survivor-two-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535897\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. strike in Pacific leaves one survivor, two dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"53II7A57ERAXFOSUNU7U5RUJPM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A U.S. military strike on a vessel suspected of hauling drugs prompted the rescue of a sole survivor, the second known instance of a successful recovery in a campaign that has killed dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MI26GOT6KFFATGNA4LVZJ2MKHQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. forces struck a \u201clow profile\u201d vessel Thursday in the Eastern Pacific transiting a common smuggling route, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Southcom\/status\/2034996829218099347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on social media<\/a> by U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the ongoing boat strike campaign against alleged smugglers in Latin America. The strike was the 46th since early September, officials said, totaling 159 people killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. military strike on a vessel suspected of hauling drugs prompted the rescue of a sole survivor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-535897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}