If the individuals targeted in military strikes on drug vessels are traffickers, they are very low-level

A U.S. military campaign of lethal strikes against vessels suspected of trafficking narcotics in Latin American and Caribbean waters, which human-rights organisations describe as extrajudicial killings and which the U.S. government has not always supported with publicly released evidence.

Transnational criminal networks and cartels, including their trafficking, financial and resource-extraction activities and international efforts to counter them.