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boat with outboard engines being hit by a missile and exploding into a huge ball of flames. SOUTHCOM, which is responsible for US military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, claimed that the four
attacks](https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-cartels-drug-trafficking-trump-39cb6e4bd416b4216644c03b5ca59d87) by claiming the US is [engaged](https://apnews.com/article/trump-maduro-drugs-venezuela-911-hegseth-3db3aafed492556bb9ca7de855c4849e) in an “armed conflict” with Latin American cartels. But United Nations officials have said [international humanitarian law](https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166234) does
attack in as many days, military officials have announced. US southern command said it conducted “a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations” in the eastern Pacific, without naming the alleged