US Southern Command said on Tuesday that its forces launched another attack on an alleged drug-running boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, as the US continues conducting extra-judicial executions at sea.
As usual, SOUTHCOM offered no evidence to back up its claim that the boat was running drugs, something the Pentagon has never done since the campaign began on September 2, 2025.
SOUTHCOM said that the strike killed at least one male “narco-terrorist,” a term the Trump administration uses to justify executing people for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US. It said that another two people survived and that rescue operations had begun, though survivors of the strikes often drown at sea.
According to a count from The Intercept, the bombing campaign has involved at least 64 strikes and has killed 208 people, all civilians, since they were operating civilian vehicles and weren’t engaged in combat with the US at the time of their execution.
The US has continued to expand military operations across Latin America, recently launching an airstrike in Venezuela that it claims targeted and killed Guerrero Flores, the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The attack that was launched in cooperation with the Venezuelan government, which has been led by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez since the US attack on the country that resulted in the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.
The Pentagon has also been building up forces for a potential attack on Cuba, which the Trump administration has been threatening for several months as it has ramped up its oil embargo on the country, causing a devastating humanitarian crisis.
