The Pentagon said that the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike on Friday against a vessel in the Eastern Pacific operated by a designated terrorist organization and involved in drug trafficking, killing two and leaving one survivor.
U.S. Southern Command said on May 8 that the strike was part of Operation Southern Spear, a campaign that uses military force against suspected drug-smuggling vessels across the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific after designating major cartels and trafficking networks as terrorist organizations that use drugs to kill Americans as part of irregular combat.
