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Story summary
- U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to strike boats in South America is a $4.7 billion, 15,000-person campaign that has killed nearly 200 people but failed to cut cocaine availability in the United States.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised the strikes as effective while Carl Latkin of Johns Hopkins called strategy abhorrent and noted cocaine stays cheap.
- Traffickers shifted to land routes through Central America and container ships, taking losses from attacks.
