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September 7, 2026

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U.S. Southern Command destroyed Ecuadorian vessel over unproven Los Choneros ties, fifth such strike in under two weeks

On September 7, 2026, U.S. Southern Command's Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere intercepted and sank an Ecuadorian vessel in international waters of the eastern Pacific, alleging without independently disclosed evidence that it was a "floating refueling station" supporting Los Choneros, a group the U.S. has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Unlike most strikes in SOUTHCOM's broader anti-cartel campaign, the vessel's occupants were removed before it was sunk and transferred to Ecuadorian authorities rather than killed. It was the fifth such vessel SOUTHCOM has destroyed under this pattern since August 28, 2026, in under two weeks.

Washington Post revealed Defense Department stripped slavery context from Arlington's Confederate memorial marker

The Washington Post reported on September 7, 2026, that the Trump administration had removed language critical of Confederate history from a marker and Defense Department website describing the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery; the exact date the text changed is not established in the reporting. The removed passages described the 32-foot bronze statue as presenting a "nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery," and the replacement marker states only that the statue will return to the site in 2027 after conservation. The Defense Department referred questions to Arlington National Cemetery, which did not respond to the newspaper.