{"id":215466,"date":"2026-03-22T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215466"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:57:31","slug":"us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215466","title":{"rendered":"US strikes second alleged drug boat in a week, bringing death toll to 133"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strike appears to be first  in Caribbean since November, with vast majority of recent strikes happening in the PacificThe US military\u2019s Southern Command, which oversees operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said it had carried out its second deadly boat strike this week. The command said the latest strike killed three suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean on Friday.\u201cIntelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,\u201d the Southern Command said in a statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/us-boat-strike-caribbean-drugs\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike appears to be first in Caribbean since November, with vast majority of recent strikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215466-us-strikes-second-alleged-drug-boat-in-a-week-bringing-death-toll-to-133.jpg",140,112,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}