2026年9月10日 / 美国东部时间上午6:51 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥周三在厄瓜多尔访问期间，为针对疑似贩毒船只的有争议空袭辩护，称如果不加以遏制，拉美贩毒集团会“将这些国家蚕食殆尽”。数小时后，美国军方证实其在加勒比海实施了又一次致命空袭。
鲁比奥称赞该地区正在涌现与特朗普总统结盟的新一代保守派领导人，表示华盛顿正在找到愿意对犯罪集团采取“强硬行动”的合作伙伴。
自特朗普重新上台以来，美国已对在加勒比海和东太平洋已知贩毒航线航行的船只发动空袭。
根据五角大楼的数据，这些行动已造成200多人死亡。
人权组织、渔民及其亲属对这场行动提出质疑，称船只在没有足够证据证明其与贩毒有关的情况下就成为袭击目标。
专家也质疑这些行动是否真能遏制可卡因和其他毒品流向全球最大的消费国美国。
在基多与厄瓜多尔总统丹尼尔·诺沃亚举行会谈后，鲁比奥表示行动将持续下去。
“如果你不与这些团伙对抗，它们会将这些国家蚕食殆尽，”他警告道，“这就像癌症一样不断扩散，直到你彻底失去国家形态。”
“我很高兴该地区有认真打击这些团伙的领导人，因为如果没有他们，我们会看到一个又一个国家走向失败。”
最近几周，战术出现转变迹象，美厄联合巡逻队至少在六艘船只上驱逐了船员，随后将船只击沉。
上周，美国军方拦截并击沉了一艘据称被厄瓜多尔犯罪集团“乔诺斯帮”用于海上贩毒支援的船只。此前还有一次类似行动，摧毁了与该帮派有关的另一艘船只，该帮派是厄瓜多尔主要的贩毒和勒索团伙之一。
鲁比奥表示，决策将逐案制定，取决于船只构成的威胁、其所在位置以及当地法律。
“当你在领海开展联合行动时，必须就行动的开展方式达成共识，”他说。
当被问及是否会继续摧毁船只时，鲁比奥回应道：“再说一遍，这要视情况而定，我们仍会炸毁船只。”
周三晚些时候，美国南方司令部（SOUTHCOM）表示，美军对“在加勒比海既定贩毒航线航行的高速快艇实施了致命动能打击”。
南方司令部在X平台上发布了船只在水中爆炸并燃起大火的黑白 footage，并配文称此次行动“击毙了三名毒贩恐怖分子”。
美国南方司令部于2026年9月9日周三表示，美军对“在加勒比海既定贩毒航线航行的高速快艇实施了致命动能打击”。美国南方司令部
仅在厄瓜多尔，过去三年里就有超过2.5万人在贩毒帮派争夺贩毒航线控制权的过程中被杀害。
“我们谈论的是恐怖分子，他们中的许多人拥有的武器和装备堪比某些国家的国民军队，”鲁比奥说。
今年早些时候，美国突击队与厄瓜多尔军队联合开展行动，旨在捣毁该国海岸线上一个疑似由一名据称的毒贩恐怖主义组织运营的犯罪据点。
2024年，厄瓜多尔最大毒枭阿道夫·马西亚斯从最高安全级监狱越狱后，于2025年6月被重新抓获。此后，厄瓜多尔的犯罪帮派暴力活动仍未平息。2025年7月，厄瓜多尔政府将马西亚斯引渡至美国，他在美国面临多项贩毒和枪支指控。
美国将“老虎帮”列入恐怖组织黑名单
在基多期间，鲁比奥宣布将厄瓜多尔帮派“老虎帮”列为“恐怖组织”，并对七名厄瓜多尔前官员实施制裁。
2024年初，蒙面帮派成员冲入电视演播室直播现场，开枪射击并迫使惊恐的工作人员趴在地上，“老虎帮”因此登上国际新闻头条。
将该帮派列入黑名单的举措，是在美国于两个月前将厄瓜多尔帮派“乔内杀手帮”列为外国恐怖组织之后出台的。“乔内杀手帮”是“乔诺斯帮”的分支，美国曾在2020年将“乔诺斯帮”列为外国恐怖组织。
“灰狼帮”和“乔诺斯帮”（得名于乔内市）是厄瓜多尔主要的贩毒和勒索帮派之一，与国际贩毒集团有联系。去年，美国将“灰狼帮”列为恐怖组织。
结束对哥伦比亚和厄瓜多尔的访问后，鲁比奥于周三晚抵达利马，他将在那里与秘鲁领导人会面，这是他此次访问的最后一站，旨在巩固右翼盟友关系，增强美国在该地区的影响力。
在哥伦比亚，鲁比奥承诺在经历多年左翼执政后，恢复与波哥大的“正常关系”。
他对左翼领导的墨西哥态度则没那么友好，称墨西哥正在加强打击贩毒团伙的力度“但仍远远不够”。
“墨西哥有大片领土不受国家管控，”他说，“无论如何，都必须应对这一威胁。”
U.S. destroys another alleged drug boat as Rubio defends deadly strikes, says cartels are “like a cancer”
September 10, 2026 / 6:51 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended controversial strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats during a visit to Ecuador on Wednesday, arguing Latin American cartels would “eat these countries alive” if left unchecked. Hours later, the U.S. military confirmed it conducted another deadly strike in the Caribbean Sea.
Hailing a new generation of conservative leaders emerging across the region who are allied with President Trump, Rubio said Washington was finding partners willing to be “very aggressive” against criminal groups.
Since Mr. Trump returned to power, the U.S. has conducted airstrikes against vessels plying known trafficking routes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
According to Pentagon figures, the operations have killed more than 200 people.
Rights groups, fishermen and their relatives have questioned the campaign, alleging vessels were targeted without sufficient evidence of links to trafficking.
Experts have also questioned whether they do anything to curb the flow of cocaine and other drugs to the United States — the world’s largest consumer.
Speaking after talks with President Daniel Noboa in Quito, Rubio said the operations would continue.
“If you don’t confront these groups, they will eat these countries alive,” he warned. “It’s like a cancer that continues to grow until you don’t literally have a state anymore.”
“I’m glad that we have leaders in this region that are serious about going after these groups, because if we didn’t, we would have failed country after failed country.”
In recent weeks there have been signs of a shift in tactics, with joint U.S.-Ecuador patrols removing crews from at least six boats before sinking the vessels.
Last week, the U.S. military intercepted and sank a vessel that was allegedly being used to support at-sea drug trafficking by the Ecuadorian criminal organization Los Choneros. It came after a similar operation that destroyed another vessel linked to the gang, one of Ecuador’s main drug trafficking and extortion groups.
Rubio said decisions were made case by case and depended on the threat posed by a vessel, its location and local laws.
“When you’re conducting a joint operation in territorial waters, you have to reach an understanding as to how those operations are going to occur,” he said.
Asked whether vessels would continue to be destroyed, Rubio replied: “Well again, it depends, and we still blow up ships.”
Later Wednesday, the U.S. military’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said American forces executed a “lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.”
The operation “killed three narco-terrorists,” SOUTHCOM posted on X along with black-and-white footage of a ship exploding in the water and bursting into flames.
U.S. executed a “lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean,” SOUTHCOM said on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. SOUTHCOM
In Ecuador alone, more than 25,000 people have been murdered in the last three years as drug gangs have vied for control of trafficking routes.
“We are talking about terrorists who, in many cases, possess weapons and equipment resembling the national armies of certain countries,” Rubio said.
Earlier this year, American commandos joined Ecuadorian troops in a joint mission aimed at dismantling a suspected criminal hub operated by an alleged narco-terrorist organization along the country’s coast.
Criminal gang violence continues unabated in Ecuador following the recapture in June 2025 of the country’s biggest drug lord, Adolfo Macías after his escape from a maximum-security prison in 2024. In July 2025, the Ecuadoran government extradited Macías to the U.S., where he faces multiple drug trafficking and firearms charges.
U.S. blacklists “Tiguerones” as terror group
While in Quito, Rubio announced the designation of one Ecuadorian gang, Los Tiguerones, as a “terrorist organization” and sanctions against seven Ecuadoran former officials.
The Tiguerones made international headlines in early 2024 when masked gang members stormed a TV studio during a live broadcast, firing shots and forcing terrified crew to the ground.
The move to blacklist the gang comes about two months after the U.S. designated Ecuadorian gang the “Chone Killers” as a foreign terrorist organization. The Chone Killers are an offshoot of Los Chineros, a gang the U.S. previously designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 2020.
Los Lobos (The Wolves) and Los Choneros (after the city of Chone) are among Ecuador’s main drug trafficking and extortion gangs, with ties to international cartels. Last year, Los Lobos was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S.
After visiting Colombia and Ecuador, Rubio late Wednesday landed in Lima, where he will meet Peruvian leaders on the last stop of a tour to shore up rightwing allies and bolster U.S. influence across the region.
In Colombia, Rubio pledged to restore “natural relations” with Bogota after years of leftist rule.
He had less warm words for leftist-led Mexico, which he said was stepping up the cartel fight “but it is still not nearly enough.”
“There are territories, vast territories in Mexico that are not governed by the state,” he said. “That threat will have to be confronted one way or the other.”