{"id":23408,"date":"2026-05-30T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-military-kills-3-in-latest-strike-on-suspected-drug-boat-in-eastern-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:21:12","slug":"us-military-kills-3-in-latest-strike-on-suspected-drug-boat-in-eastern-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-military-kills-3-in-latest-strike-on-suspected-drug-boat-in-eastern-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"US military kills 3 in latest strike on suspected drug boat in eastern Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military on Friday killed three men in its latest strike on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote in a post on the social platform X that the vessel was &#8220;transiting along known narco-trafficking routes&#8221; and being operated by designated terrorist organizations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5902179-southcom-strikes-suspected-drug-boat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military on Friday killed three men in its latest strike on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote in a post on the social platform X that the vessel was &#8220;transiting along known narco-trafficking routes&#8221; and being operated by designated terrorist organizations&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23408","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\/23408","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=23408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}