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2026-05-28 Caribbean-Latin America
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Pentagon obliterates narco-terror boat traveling along trafficking route in eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US military launched another strike on Tuesday on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors.
Video posted on social media by US Southern Command shows a boat speeding through water before exploding into flames.
Southern Command said it 'immediately notified the US Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors.'
The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters, including the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, has gone on since September 2025 and killed at least 194 people in total.
The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.
The Pentagon watchdog said last week that it will evaluate whether the US military followed an established targeting framework when carrying out the attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats.
The six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle include a military commander's intent, target development, analysis, decision, execution and assessment.
The Pentagon inspector general's office said the review was 'self-initiated.'
It will not probe the legality of the strikes, which have drawn intense scrutiny from some Democratic lawmakers and military legal scholars.
The Trump administration says the US is at war against the Latin American drug cartels, which it says are responsible for the scourge of fatal drug overdoses plaguing many American communities.
The Trump administration has defended the aggressive tactics, describing those targeted as 'unlawful combatants' and asserting that military force can be used without traditional judicial oversight based on classified legal findings from the Justice Department.
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