4 killed in military strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean

The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-trafficking go-fast boat in the Caribbean on Sunday, killing four “narco-terrorists,” the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) announced .

Southcom said the vessel was operating along “established narco-trafficking routes” in the Caribbean and confirmed intelligence “revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking.”

This is the military’s first boat strike this month. Since Sept. 2 last year, U.S. forces have carried out a minimum of 71 strikes and killed 239 “narco-terrorists.”

The latest boat strike comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated over the weekend that U.S. service members might be redeployed from Europe to the Western Hemisphere as the Trump administration intensifies its deadly campaign against drug cartels in South America.

Hegseth told reporters on Saturday that “some of those capabilities are going to move elsewhere, either back home to the big, beautiful base that we’re going to build that we announced a couple of days ago, or to a different posture in the Western Hemisphere as we get after these designated terrorist organizations.”

The Trump administration has described the boat strike campaign as part of its effort to cut off the trafficking of illegal drugs in the region and as one of the ways to protect the American homeland.

Some law-of-experts, rights activists and Democratic lawmakers have denounced the strikes as summary executions.