The United States military has carried out another attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, in a strike by United States forces on boats that Washington alleges have links to Latin American drug trafficking cartels.
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which is responsible for Washington’s military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, confirmed the attack in a post on social media on Monday
SOUTHCOM claimed that, based on intelligence reports, the boat was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific” and was targeted with “a lethal kinetic strike” on the orders of US Commander General Francis LDonovan.
The attack marked the second day in a row that SOUTHCOM announced a strike on boats in the Pacific.