{"id":674199,"date":"2026-05-30T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:55:18","slug":"another-us-strike-on-an-alleged-drug-boat-kills-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674199\/","title":{"rendered":"Another US strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the third attack this week and pushing the overall death toll above 200 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. Southern Command announced the latest strike in the monthslong campaign<\/a> against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific with its usual language that the vessel was \u201cengaged in narco-trafficking operations\u201d and operated by a designated terrorist organization. It provided no evidence.<\/p>\n

While the military\u2019s social media announcements always include video of the attacks, this appears to be the first with the footage in color<\/a> instead of black and white. The video shows a small vessel floating in the ocean before it\u2019s hit and engulfed in a fireball. It cuts to what could be the boat in flames, surrounded by a large plume of parcels or some other objects spread around it in the water.<\/p>\n

The attack puts the death toll at 202 people from the series of U.S. strikes that began in early September, with two other attacks announced Tuesday<\/a> and Wednesday. The Trump administration has declared that the U.S. is at armed conflict with Latin American drug cartels<\/a>, saying they are behind the flow of drugs into American communities.<\/p>\n

U.S. Southern Command said in its post on X that the strike came at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the top U.S. commander in Latin America, who on Friday also met with Cuban military leaders<\/a> near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,23662,60187,3071,12,22046,22048,294063,793,1576,3,81,267317,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,964,800,965],"class_list":["post-674199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-caribbean","tag-caribbean-sea","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-drug-cartels","tag-drug-crimes","tag-francis-l-donovan","tag-general-news","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-trump-hub","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674199","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=674199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}