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US Strike on Suspected Drug Boat Kills Two in Eastern Pacific. The US military says it carried out a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The strike took place on Sunday and targeted a vessel that US Southern Command said was operating along established narcotics-trafficking routes. According to the command, intelligence had confirmed that the boat was actively involved in drug trafficking, although it did not publicly provide evidence to support the claim. The attack is the first known US strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in more than two months. It forms part of the Trump administration’s wider campaign against alleged drug traffickers operating in waters around Latin America. More than 200 people have been killed in US strikes on suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since the campaign began last year. The operation has faced growing legal and humanitarian criticism, particularly because the US has not publicly provided definitive evidence linking many of the targeted boats to drug trafficking.
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