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The U.S. Boat Strikes, One Year Later

The campaign has expanded to 68 attacks and includes covert operations, while investigators say it has killed 227 people.

  • Over the past year, American military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean have killed 227 civilians, according to an analysis by Airwars, spanning more than 65 attacks.
  • The campaign began on September 2, 2025, as part of the Donroe Doctrine, an aggressive military effort involving the Joint Special Operations Command across the Western Hemisphere.
  • An investigation by The Intercept and Airwars found the Pentagon consistently withholds basic information about strikes; critics allege the administration is "killing for online content and spectacle."
  • The bipartisan 2026 defense policy bill withholds 25 percent of travel funds from Hegseth's office until Congress receives reports on the strikes; officials called the legal justification "flimsy yet expansive."
  • American forces lead the 19-member Americas Counter Cartel Coalition, which includes "Operation Total Extermination" in Ecuador, a strategy spawning increased violence and danger across the Western Hemisphere.
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The United States killed 227 people last year in attacks on ships suspected of drug trafficking in the Pacific and Caribbean, according to the US military.

·Zagreb, Croatia
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According to the US military, 227 people have been killed in attacks on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the Pacific and Caribbean over the past year.

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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The US has escalated its operations in the Pacific and Caribbean in the campaign dubbed Operation Southern Spear The post US: They announced that they killed 227 people in a year who were allegedly trafficking drugs appeared first on in.gr.

·Greece
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In 68 raids on speedboats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, the US military reports 227 deaths in the anti-drug operation. The US military has killed 227 people in strikes on speedboats it says were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, a spokesman said on Wednesday, marking a year since the campaign began this month.

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The United States killed 227 people in the past year in attacks on suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the U.S. military reports. Three suspected drug smugglers were rescued alive.

·Apeldoorn, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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For exactly one year now, the controversial U.S. operation »Southern Spear« has been running. President Trump wants to fight drug smuggling with the deadly attacks on ships in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

·Hamburg, Germany
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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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