{"id":69591,"date":"2026-03-20T17:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-has-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-us-southern-command-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:57:19","slug":"us-has-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-us-southern-command-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-has-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-us-southern-command-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US has struck another alleged drug-smuggling boat, US Southern Command says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person survived and two were killed, the military said, who were turned over to Costa Rican coast guard<\/p>\n<p>US Southern Command <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcom.mil\/News\/PressReleases\/Article\/4439576\/lethal-kinetic-strike-march-19-2026\/\">announced<\/a> on Friday that US forces carried out another \u201clethal kinetic strike\u201d on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific which left one survivor and two people dead.<\/p>\n<p>After the strike, the military said that it \u201cimmediately notified US Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system\u201d for three people who survived the strike. The coast guard said in a statement that one of its ships recovered two dead bodies and one survivor and turned them over to the Costa Rican coast guard.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/us-boat-strike-southern-command\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person survived and two were killed, the military said, who were turned over to Costa Rican coast guard US Southern Command announced on Friday that US forces carried out another \u201clethal kinetic strike\u201d on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific which left one survivor and two people dead. After the strike, the &#8230; <a title=\"US has struck another alleged drug-smuggling boat, US Southern Command says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/us-has-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-us-southern-command-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US has struck another alleged drug-smuggling boat, US Southern Command says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}