WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration launched another round of deadly strikes on vessels it accused of smuggling drugs, killing 14 people in four boats in its growing military campaign off the Central and South American coasts, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today.

Hegseth said that the strikes — three of them — took place on Monday in international waters and that there had been one survivor. They bring the overall death toll to 57 in the campaign, which began in September.

A U.S. military official, discussing operations on the condition of anonymity, said the lone survivor was picked up in waters near the coasts of Mexico and Guatemala.

Hegseth said that Mexican search and rescue authorities had “accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue,” but he

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