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Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says the fight against nar­co-traf­fick­ing re­mains ac­tive, even as the Unit­ed States has not car­ried out a ki­net­ic mar­itime strike since the ar­rest of Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

Alexan­der made the com­ments in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia as he en­tered Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day, amid ques­tions about the ap­par­ent pause in US-led in­ter­dic­tion op­er­a­tions in the south­ern Caribbean.

The re­gion saw its most in­tense pe­ri­od of ki­net­ic strikes be­gin­ning in Sep­tem­ber 2025, when 11 peo­ple were killed in an at­tack on a speed­boat al­leged­ly linked to the Tren de Aragua gang. Be­tween Sep­tem­ber and De­cem­ber, more than 25 con­firmed strikes were car­ried out across the Caribbean and east­ern Pa­cif­ic. Two Trinida­di­ans were among those killed in a blast on Oc­to­ber 14, the fifth ma­jor mar­itime en­gage­ment of the cam­paign.