Analysts Say U.S. Strikes in the Caribbean Are Driving Drug Routes to New, Harder-to-Track Corridors

SOUTHCOM strike in Pacific kills 3 (April 15) (Credit: Southcom's official X account)

U.S. military strikes targeting suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean are pushing narcotics flows into new routes and methods that are harder to detect even as operations intensify and casualties rise, as a new sprawling report by BBC Mundo explains.

The latest strike occurred Monday, when U.S. Southern Command said two people were killed after a vessel traveling along a "known narco-trafficking" route was hit in the Caribbean Sea.