Strike on alleged drug vessel kills four in the Caribbean, US military says

Latest strike comes as part of US Southern Command’s efforts to apply ‘total systemic friction on the cartels’

The US has launched another strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Southern Command said Wednesday.

The command which oversees combatant operations in Latin America and the Caribbean announced on X that it had conducted a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations”.