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Why drug smuggling submarines are built to destroy themselves

For years, drug cartels built semi-submersible vessels with one purpose beyond smuggling cocaine: sinking themselves on command. This episode explains how narco submarines and low-profile vessels were ...
Military Times

How did the US patrol the Caribbean for drug smuggling before strikes?

A small boat crew from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley pursues suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 3, 2018. (Courtesy Air Station Elizabeth City/U.S. Coast Guard) Editor’s note: ...
The Telegraph

A timeline of the US military’s buildup near Venezuela and attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to brief members of Congress on military strikes near Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) ...
The New York Times

Even as U.S. Blows Up Boats, Coast Guard Captures Others at Sea

Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources. For the most part, people captured by the Coast ...
Yahoo

How did the US patrol the Caribbean for drug smuggling before strikes?

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “Q&A: How Did the U.S. Patrol the ...