U.S. Boat-Strike Death Toll Reaches 199 as Recent Survivors Go Unfound

14 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · May 28

At least 199 people have died in the Trump administration’s boat-strike campaign after no survivors were found from recent attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
The toll includes at least 22 people who survived an initial strike but were later hit again or died at sea; the military says three people survived two separate strikes this month.
U.S. Southern Command said it alerts the Coast Guard about survivors, but those reports appear to be passed to nearby countries; Mexico’s navy said a U.S. alert this month did not mention survivors.
Only three people are known to have survived and been rescued since the campaign began last September, underscoring criticism of the operation’s rescue follow-through.
The strikes, justified by the administration as part of a war on Latin American drug cartels, are already under Pentagon inspector-general review over whether targeting procedures were followed.

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