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Evidence such as indictments, leadership captures, major seizures, dismantled cells, or official partner confirmations demonstrates that major narco-terrorist networks in the Western Hemisphere have been disrupted or dismantled by U.S. actions.
U.S. officials and its military publicly launched Operation Southern Spear and authorized lethal strikes on vessels and other actions described as targeting “narco‑terrorist” networks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, and DOJ/administration documents show an explicit policy to target cartels. Independent reporting and expert analyses (CFR, Reuters, NPR, BBC) however find scant evidence that these strikes and operations have actually dismantled drug networks “all across the Western Hemisphere” or meaningfully reduced regional drug flows; critics note the campaign’s limited geographic focus, legal controversies, and continued trafficking. Verdict: Misleading — the administration has taken aggressive, often lethal actions it calls dismantling narco‑terrorist networks, but credible sources show the claim overstates results and scope beyond what independent evidence supports.