A black and white video posted on X showed a boat speeding through the water before being struck by a visible projectile and then bursting into flames.
President Donald Trump said the US is in an armed conflict with Latin American cartels and argued that the attacks are necessary to curb drug trafficking and overdose deaths in the United States.
The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the US military to at least 208 since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in ...
US Southern Command announced the strike with its usual language that the vessel was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” and operated by a designated terrorist organisation.
The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and killed at least 194 people in total.
