Exclusive: In a first, US strike in Caribbean leaves survivors, US official says

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1. SS: In an unreported escalation of U.S. counter-narcotics operations, American forces executed a precision strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean on October 16, 2025, confirming survivors among the crew per anonymous U.S. officials. This follows a pattern of intensified interdictions amid surging fentanyl flows from Mexico and Venezuela-linked cartels, raising questions about operational secrecy, potential collateral risks in a volatile region, and Washington’s unilateral approach—could such strikes provoke backlash from hemispheric partners wary of extraterritorial actions, or do they underscore the limits of multilateral efforts against narco-trafficking as a hybrid threat to Western Hemisphere security?

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