Three households, two bombings and a hidden struggle: uncovering the lives behind Operation Southern Spear’s lifeless.
Since September 2025, the US army has carried out greater than 60 strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats within the Caribbean and Jap Pacific, killing greater than 220 folks.
In a army marketing campaign referred to as Operation Southern Spear, President Donald Trump’s administration has claimed to wage struggle towards “narcoterrorism”. But the federal government has launched little details about who was killed, the proof towards them or how targets have been chosen.
In Killing at Sea, Fault Traces investigates the administration’s claims about Operation Southern Spear by uncovering the tales of these focused and the proof used to justify deadly army power.
By way of the tales of households left looking for solutions, alongside witness accounts, bodily proof and interviews with authorized specialists, Fault Traces asks whether or not the strikes are lawful, whether or not they have disrupted the drug commerce and what accountability exists for these killed.
From fishing communities within the Caribbean to Washington, DC, Killing at Sea examines a army marketing campaign performed largely past public view—and asks who’s being killed within the US’s new struggle at sea, and why.
Revealed On 2 Sep 2026
