{"id":21289,"date":"2026-04-14T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-military-says-2-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:22:53","slug":"us-military-says-2-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-military-says-2-killed-in-eastern-pacific-boat-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says 2 killed in Eastern Pacific boat strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two male &ldquo;narco-terrorists.&rdquo; U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote on social platform X that &ldquo;at the direction&rdquo; of its commander, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear &ldquo;conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5829840-us-military-2-killed-eastern-pacific-boat-strike\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two male &ldquo;narco-terrorists.&rdquo; U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote on social platform X that &ldquo;at the direction&rdquo; of its commander, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear &ldquo;conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}