{"id":787306,"date":"2026-07-27T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:51:07","slug":"operation-southern-spear-has-not-slowed-cocaine-from-entering-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787306\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Southern Spear has not slowed cocaine from entering U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7CYNMV466JBBHPQT35REQ6FTB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration\u2019s deadly military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the United States, but they\u2019re prompting criminal organizations to develop new strategies and tactics and undermining traditional investigative methods, according to a previously unreported assessment by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a closed-door congressional briefing and interviews with current and former U.S. and foreign officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s deadly military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats have not reduced the amount of cocaine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787307,"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-787306","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\/787306","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=787306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}