The U.S. military said it carried out a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean on April 19, killing three people it identified as drug traffickers, marking the latest in a string of operations targeting maritime narcotics routes.
In an April 20 post on X, U.S. Southern Command said the vessel was operated by designated terrorist organizations and was moving along known trafficking routes.
The U.S. military said the strike killed “three male narco-terrorists,” and no U.S. personnel were harmed in the operation.
The April 19 strike follows several similar actions in recent days as part of a broader campaign under the Trump administration targeting suspected drug-smuggling vessels across the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific….