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US Military Boat Strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific

Sep 28, 2026 · 38m

Summary

Hosted by journalist Carlos Berrios Polanco, this episode investigates the US military's ongoing campaign of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, which have killed at least 234 people since September 2025. The discussion details the Trump administration's legal justifications for these extrajudicial killings, the purging of dissenting legal counsel, and the targeting of low-level crew members and fishermen rather than cartel leaders. Berrios highlights the lack of evidence for the victims' criminality, the failure of these strikes to reduce drug trafficking, and the broader geopolitic…

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