{"id":33072,"date":"2026-04-25T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-us-strikes-a-narcotics-trafficking-ship-in-the-eastern-pacific-2-people-are-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:25:51","slug":"the-us-strikes-a-narcotics-trafficking-ship-in-the-eastern-pacific-2-people-are-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-us-strikes-a-narcotics-trafficking-ship-in-the-eastern-pacific-2-people-are-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"The US strikes a narcotics-trafficking ship in the Eastern Pacific, 2 people are killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thumbs_b_c_a6f7567042cef35baa8ce72eac393c35.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The US military has announced that it has carried out a &#8220;deadly&#8221; attack on a ship in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two suspected narco-terrorists, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on the American social network X claimed that intelligence has identified the ship as operating along &#8220;known drug trafficking routes&#8221; and being actively involved in suspected drug trafficking operations. narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was ordered by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, commander of SOUTHCOM, and was carried out by the Joint Task Force against what it described as a vessel operated by a \u201cdesignated terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo male suspected narco-terrorists were killed during this operation,\u201d the command said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation came as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration&#8217;s intensified military activity in the Sea of Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean since last September in the name of fighting drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say at least 163 people have been killed since the operations began.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say these attacks amount to extrajudicial executions, where the accused have no chance to defend themselves or prove their innocence before being killed.<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that pardons granted by President Trump on convicted drug traffickers show that he is not really interested in fighting the illegal drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has announced that it has carried out a &#8220;deadly&#8221; attack on a ship in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two suspected narco-terrorists, reports Anadolu. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on the American social network X claimed that intelligence has identified the ship as operating along &#8220;known drug trafficking routes&#8221; and being actively involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-33072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33074,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions\/33074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}