Overview

• Officials said the seizures denied cartels $11.34 billion in revenue and represented an estimated 377.9 million potential lethal doses.
• The record figure, described by the task force as unprecedented, does not include separate U.S. strikes on vessels the administration labels Venezuelan narco-terrorists.
• JIATF-S, based in Florida and led by U.S. Southern Command, operates with the Coast Guard, Navy, Justice Department and partner nations from the Eastern Pacific to the Western Atlantic.
• The announcement follows an intensified counter-narcotics strategy under President Donald Trump, including cartel terror designations and deployments of Navy guided-missile destroyers to the Caribbean.
• U.S. officials and allies publicly praised the campaign’s results and signaled continued pressure on trafficking networks moving drugs through waters between South and Central America and the Caribbean.