US Southern Command said on Wednesday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as the Trump administration continues the extra-judicial executions at sea.
SOUTHCOM said the strike killed two male “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration has adopted in its attempts to justify killing people for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US.
The Pentagon has also never offered any evidence to back up its claims that the boats it’s bombing are carrying drugs, and accounts from survivors and family members of victims of other strikes that were reported by Drop Site News suggest the US has targeted fishing boats that were not.
Besides being clearly illegal under both US and international law, the bombing campaign has also failed at stemming the flow of drugs to the US, according to a recent report from The New York Times. Numbers from US Customs and Border Protection show that more cocaine has been seized at the border and other points of entry in the eight months after the bombing campaign began than was seized in the eight months prior.
According to a count from The Intercept, since the campaign began in September 2025, the US boat strikes have killed at least 207 people, all civilians, since they were operating civilian boats, were not engaged in combat, and posed no threat to US forces at the time of their killing.
