Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 11, at the direction of the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted two lethal kinetic strikes on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations.  Two male narco-terrorists were killed, and one narco-terrorist survived the first strike. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during the second strike.  Following the engagements, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor. No U.S. military forces were harmed.

#DRUGTRAFFICKING An attack on two drug-laden vessels resulted in their destruction, according to @Southcom. Military intelligence confirmed that the boats were traveling along known drug trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were involved in drug trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the first attack. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during the second attack.

#NARCOTRAFICO Un ataque contra dos embarcaciones con droga fueron destruidas, según @Southcom la inteligencia militar confirmó que las lanchas transitaban por rutas conocidas de narcotráfico en el Pacífico Oriental e involucradas en operaciones de narcotráfico. Dos narco-terroristas murieron y uno sobrevivió al primer ataque. Tres narco-terroristas varones fueron abatidos durante el segundo ataque.

US Eliminates Two Drug-Trafficking Boats, Leaving Five Dead in the Pacific The US Southern Command reported that military forces carried out two attacks against vessels in the Pacific Ocean allegedly linked to drug trafficking, as part of its operations in the region. According to the report, five people died in the operations, while one survived and received medical attention after a search and rescue protocol was activated. The boats, the military command stated, were operating on known drug trafficking routes. These actions are part of Operation "Southern Spear," a Washington military strategy that has included multiple attacks against drug trafficking organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months. #EVTVNews #SouthernCommand #DrugTrafficking

EEUU eliminó dos narcolanchas con saldo de cinco muertos en el Pacífico El Comando Sur de Estados Unidos informó que fuerzas militares ejecutaron dos ataques contra embarcaciones en el Pacífico presuntamente vinculadas al narcotráfico, como parte de sus operaciones en la región. Según el reporte, cinco personas murieron en los operativos, mientras una sobrevivió y fue atendida tras activarse un protocolo de búsqueda y rescate. Las lanchas, aseguró el mando militar, operaban en rutas conocidas del narcotráfico. Estas acciones se enmarcan en la operación “Lanza del Sur”, una estrategia militar de Washington que ha incluido múltiples ataques contra estructuras del narcotráfico en América Latina y el Caribe en los últimos meses. #NoticiasEVTV #ComandoSur #Narcotrafico

US | The US Southern Command carried out lethal attacks against vessels linked to narco-terrorist organizations in the Pacific, leaving five dead and one survivor.

EEUU | El Comando Sur de EE.UU. ejecutó ataques letales contra embarcaciones vinculadas a organizaciones narco-terroristas en el Pacífico, dejando cinco abatidos y un sobreviviente.

The U.S. Southern Command indicated that one person survived the attack on the first vessel, so they immediately notified the Coast Guard for search and rescue.

El Comando Sur de EE.UU. indicó que una persona sobrevivió al ataque a la primera embarcación, por lo que notificaron de inmediato a la Guardia Costera para su búsqueda y rescate.

#April13 #World | US kills five men in attacks on two boats in the Pacific

#13Abr #Mundo | EE. UU. mata a cinco hombres en ataques a dos lanchas en el Pacífico

#DRUGTRAFFICKING An attack on two drug-laden vessels resulted in their destruction, according to @Southcom. Military intelligence confirmed that the boats were traveling along known drug trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were involved in drug trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the first attack. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during the second attack.

#NARCOTRAFICO Un ataque contra dos embarcaciones con droga fueron destruidas, según @Southcom la inteligencia militar confirmó que las lanchas transitaban por rutas conocidas de narcotráfico en el Pacífico Oriental e involucradas en operaciones de narcotráfico. Dos narco-terroristas murieron y uno sobrevivió al primer ataque. Tres narco-terroristas varones fueron abatidos durante el segundo ataque.

The Trump administration is ramping up its boat strike campaign, conducting three strikes in the space of three days. The U.S. has now conducted 50 strikes in its campaign of targeting civilian vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The death toll now exceeds 170. On April 11, the U.S. conducted attacks on two boats in the Pacific Ocean, killing two people in the first strike and leaving one shipwrecked. The search for that survivor has been abandoned and that person is presumed dead. Three people were killed in the second strike that day. These attacks were followed by another strike in the Eastern Pacific on April 13 that killed two more people. As part of Operation Southern Spear, the U.S. military has now destroyed 51 vessels and killed 171 civilians. The Trump administration claims its victims are members of at least one of 24 or more cartels and criminal gangs with whom it claims to be at war but refuses to name. The boat strikes recently moved to land as so-called “bilateral kinetic actions” along the Colombia–Ecuador border. “The joint effort, named ‘Operation Total Extermination,’ is the start of a military offensive by Ecuador against transnational criminal organizations with the support of the U.S.,” Joseph Humire, the acting assistant secretary of war for homeland defense and Americas security affairs, announced last month. “There’s a danger that these lawless killings just become background noise.” “There’s a danger that these lawless killings just become background noise,” Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war, told The Intercept in the wake of the 50th boat strike. “The U.S. Congress remains the institution best situated to bring these to halt — if not now, then at least after the midterms. And members of Congress and 2028 hopefuls should be vowing accountability for those who participated in unlawful killings.” Finucane and other experts in the laws of war, as well as members of Congress, from both parties, say the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence. The summary executions are a significant departure from standard practice in the long-running U.S. war on drugs, in which law enforcement agencies detained suspected drug smugglers and brought them to trial on criminal charges. After blowing up one of the boats on Saturday, U.S. Southern Command sent a message to the Coast Guard alerting them to “a person in distress in the Pacific Ocean,” Coast Guard spokesperson Kenneth Wiese told The Intercept. The Coast Guard “immediately commenced search efforts,” calling on ships in the area to divert to search for the survivor of the U.S. attack. The next day, a French-flagged cargo ship, MV Marius, diverted to the scene but “completed its search with negative results and departed the area due to operational and fuel constraints,” according to the Coast Guard. On Monday, a U.S.-flagged research vessel, RV Sikuliaq, “completed two search patterns provided by the Coast Guard with negative results.” The same day, at 10:43 Pacific time, the Coast Guard suspended its efforts after having found “no signs of survivors or debris.” Most boat strike survivors have been purposefully killed or left to drown by the United States. Two survivors, for example, clung to the wreckage of a vessel attacked on September 2, 2025, for roughly 45 minutes. Adm. Frank Bradley — then the head of Joint Special Operations Command — sought guidance from his top legal adviser, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, the staff judge advocate at the secretive JSOC. He then ordered a follow-up attack, first reported by The Intercept in September, that killed the shipwrecked men. Search efforts for survivors have seldom resulted in rescues. After a U.S boat strike on December 30, a Coast Guard plane did not head toward the site of the attack for almost two days, reporting from Airwars and The Intercept revealed. A total of 11 civilians died following that attack— including eight who jumped overboard. The Coast Guard atypically rescued the survivor of a March 19 attack that killed two civilians. The Costa Rican press recently identified the deceased as Ecuadoran citizens Pedro Ramón Holguín, 40, and Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Solórzano, 34. The injured man was identified as José David Torres Hurtado, 21, a Colombian national. He reportedly remains hospitalized in the burn unit at San Juan de Dios Hospital, “where, according to medical reports, his condition is critical but stable,” said Costa Rican authorities. The Intercept reported on Monday that the U.S. is waging a pressure campaign against the leading pan-American human rights watchdog to squash a potential investigation into the illegal boat strike campaign. After a recent meeting of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the State Department pushed the organization to shift its focus to other issues instead of the U.S. campaign of extrajudicial killings.