The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) reported on Tuesday that it attacked three vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean that were participating in drug trafficking operations, resulting in 11 deaths. Four men died in the first attack, four in the second, and three in the last, as reported by the command on the X network and accessed by the Argentine News Agency. “On the evening of February 16, under the direction of the commander of Southern Command, General Francis L. Donovan, the Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic attacks against three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” the communication states. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels “were transiting known drug trafficking routes and participating in drug trafficking operations.” “Eleven male narcoterrorists died during these actions: four on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, four on the second (also) in the Eastern Pacific, and three on the third in the Caribbean,” it specified. “No members of the U.S. military forces were injured,” it was emphasized. Since September 2 of last year, the U.S. military has carried out at least 42 attacks in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. As a result of actions driven by the United States, at least 135 people have died, according to a CNN tally.
