AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Dominican Republic said it was the first time it had carried out a joint operation against “narco-terrorism” in the Caribbean with the United States.Packages of cocaine displayed by the Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Directorate on Sunday.Credit...Orlando Barria/EPA, via ShutterstockSept. 22, 2025The authorities in the Dominican Republic said on Sunday that they had recovered cocaine from a speedboat that was recently destroyed in a U.S. military airstrike, part of the Trump administration’s campaign targeting Latin American criminal gangs and drug cartels.It was the first time the Dominican Republic and the United States had carried out a joint operation in the Caribbean Sea against “narco-terrorism,” the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control said in a statement posted on social media Sunday.The U.S. military conducted airstrikes this month on three boats in the Caribbean in what the Trump administration has characterized as a counternarcotics and counterterrorism mission in the region.Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like.Yan Zhuang is a Times reporter in Seoul who covers breaking news.A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 23, 2025, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Dominicans Say Cocaine Was Found on Boat U.S. Hit. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | SubscribeRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT