{"id":1061,"date":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:41:55","slug":"13-men-killed-by-us-military-boat-strikes-identified-these-were-flesh-and-blood-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: \u2018These were flesh-and-blood people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A five-month investigation has named 13 previously unidentified victims of US attacks on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/caribbean\">Caribbean<\/a> and the eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the US has ever identified any of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wola.org\/2025\/11\/us-military-strikes-trump-drugs-caribbean\/\">194 victims<\/a> before attacking them, and the names of just three had previously emerged, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/02\/trump-caribbean-drug-boat-attack-complaint\">their families<\/a> launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/27\/trump-military-boat-strikes-lawsuit\">legal cases<\/a> against the White House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/us-military-airstrikes-caribbean-pacific-victim-identities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}