While Washington bombs Caribbean waters and labels the dead “narco-terrorists,” the region’s leaders have chosen the silence of complicity.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 9, 2026 - The body count is no longer abstract. More than 190 people have been killed in over 55 strikes launched by the United States military in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters since September 2024 — executed under the Trump administration’s “Operation Southern Spear,” a campaign sold to the American public as a war on narco-terrorists, but which has produced no credible evidence that a single one of its victims was a drug lord.

