U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Wednesday announced that U.S. forces carried out a lethal kinetic strike against a drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing three narco-terrorists.
\n\nThe military operation was conducted by Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM), a new purpose-built joint task forced activated in August. JTF-WHEM’s goal is to coordinate U.S. military operations and regional security efforts with regional allies across the Western Hemisphere.
\n\nSOUTHCOM detailed that the go-fast vessel struck on Wednesday was operating in established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. SOUTHCOM shared unclassified footage of the strike on its website and on social media.
\n\n“Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking,” SOUTHCOM explained. “The operation killed three narco-terrorists.”
\n\nSOUTHCOM has described Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere as the successor to Operation Southern Spear, a military operation launched by the U.S. Department of War and Secretary Pete Hegseth in September 2025.
\n\nIn August, SOUTHCOM explained that JTF-WHEM builds upon the success of Southern Spear in the fight against narco-terrorism and integrates America’s military capabilities with the Latin American members of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C), also known as the “Shield of the Americas.”
\n\nEarlier this week, SOUTHCOM announced that U.S. forces interdicted and…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
