U.S. military says strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in Caribbean Sea
Posted on: Feb 24, 2026 06:14 IST | Posted by: Cbc
The U.S. Armed forces said it killed threesome people mon in a walk out on an alleged drug-smuggling vas in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Trump administration's months-long campaign against alleged traffickers.
Monday's attack brought the death toll to at least 151 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in small vessels in early September.
As with most of the military's statements on the more than 40 known strikes, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs but posted a video on X that showed a small boat with outboard engines being destroyed.
"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," Southern Command stated in a post on X. "Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action."
On Feb. 23, at the direction of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOUTHCOM?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOUTHCOM</a> commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known… <a href="https://t.co/XUHImPAZik">pic.twitter.com/XUHImPAZik</a>
U.S. Southern Command also issued a press release on the strike, conveying the same details.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. Is in "armed conflict" with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States.
But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing "narcoterrorists."
Critics have questioned the overall legality of the strikes as well as their effectiveness, in part because the fentanyl behind many fatal overdoses is typically trafficked to the U.S. Over land from Mexico, where it is produced with chemicals imported from China and India.
The boat strikes also drew intense criticism following the revelation that the military killed survivors of the very first boat attack with a follow-up strike. The Trump administration and many Republican lawmakers said it was legal and necessary, while Democratic lawmakers and legal experts said the killings were murder, if not a war crime.
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