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WASHINGTON — <\/span>The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the third attack this week and pushing the overall death toll above 200 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n U.S. Southern Command announced the latest strike in the monthslong campaign<\/a> against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific with its usual language that the vessel was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” and operated by a designated terrorist organization. It provided no evidence.<\/p>\n While the military’s social media announcements always include video of the attacks, this appears to be the first with the footage in color<\/a> instead of black and white. The video shows a small vessel floating in the ocean before it’s hit and engulfed in a fireball. It cuts to what could be the boat in flames, surrounded by a large plume of parcels or some other objects spread around it in the water.<\/p>\n The attack puts the death toll at 202 people from the series of U.S. strikes that began in early September, with two other attacks announced Tuesday<\/a> and Wednesday. The Trump administration has declared that the U.S. is at armed conflict with Latin American drug cartels<\/a>, saying they are behind the flow of drugs into American communities.<\/p>\n U.S. Southern Command said in its post on X that the strike came at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the top U.S. commander in Latin America, who on Friday also met with Cuban military leaders<\/a> near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n