The top U.S. commander in Latin America has met with Cuban military leaders in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S.

The U.S. military on Friday killed three men in its latest strike on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) wrote in a post on the social platform X that the vessel was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes” and being operated by designated terrorist organizations,