{"id":21335,"date":"2026-04-15T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/in-its-50th-boat-strike-us-military-kills-4-narco-terrorists-in-eastern-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:22:10","slug":"in-its-50th-boat-strike-us-military-kills-4-narco-terrorists-in-eastern-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/in-its-50th-boat-strike-us-military-kills-4-narco-terrorists-in-eastern-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"In its 50th boat strike, US military kills 4 \u2018narco-terrorists\u2019 in Eastern Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military conducted its 50th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Tuesday, killing four &ldquo;narco-terrorists&rdquo; in the Eastern Pacific.  The vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization, transiting along &ldquo;known narco-trafficking routes&rdquo; and was engaged in &ldquo;narco-trafficking&rdquo; operations, the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5831695-narco-trafficking-boat-lethal-strike-50\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military conducted its 50th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Tuesday, killing four &ldquo;narco-terrorists&rdquo; in the Eastern Pacific. The vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization, transiting along &ldquo;known narco-trafficking routes&rdquo; and was engaged in &ldquo;narco-trafficking&rdquo; operations, the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) said&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21335","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\/21335","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=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}