{"id":4070,"date":"2026-08-24T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:06:35","slug":"us-strikes-a-vessel-in-the-eastern-pacific-killing-2-people-in-first-attack-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By BILL BARROW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people accused of trafficking drugs, the Department of Defense said Monday, in the first attack announced in about two months.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4068\">Jared Kushner meets with Democratic leader Jeffries with House control at stake in November<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The death toll in the nearly yearlong U.S. campaign of bombing boats allegedly trafficking drugs now exceeds 210 after more than 60 strikes off Latin America\u2019s Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Forces \u201cexecuted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narcotrafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific,\u201d U.S. Southern Command said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>As with most of the military\u2019s statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs. It is the first strike since powerful back-to-back June 24 earthquakes that killed thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists \u2014 disrupting their operations, dismantling their leadership, and eliminating cartel terror across the region,\u201d said Gen. Francis Donovan, who leads U.S. Southern Command.<\/p>\n<p>The latest strike comes as the Trump administration pursues\u00a0deals with allied nations to extend its offensive to land\u00a0across multiple Latin American countries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a visit to Panama this month that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had\u00a0agreed to allow the U.S.\u00a0to carry out joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil. Guatemala denied reaching such a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4066\">Polis requests federal disaster declaration for Colorado wildfires amid growing conflict with White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ecuador\u00a0launched similar missions\u00a0with the U.S. in March.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in \u201carmed conflict\u201d with cartels in Latin America and has\u00a0justified the attacks\u00a0as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing \u201cnarcoterrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics\u00a0have questioned the overall legality\u00a0of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness, in part because the fentanyl behind many fatal overdoses is typically trafficked to the U.S.\u00a0over land from Mexico, where it is produced with chemicals imported from China and India.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes, which began in early September, have\u00a0drawn intense scrutiny\u00a0from some Democratic lawmakers and military legal scholars.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s watchdog said in May that it plans to look into whether the U.S. military followed an\u00a0established targeting framework\u00a0when carrying out the strikes. However, the evaluation is focused specifically on what\u2019s known as the six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle and not on the legality of the strikes, the inspector general\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=4064\">No. 23 Colorado volleyball aims to fulfill expectations in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-politics","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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