US Southern Command announced the latest strike against a drug trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific in the Trump Administration’s campaign against narco-traffickers and the Venezuelan Maduro regime on Monday.
This is the first strike against a boat since last Monday, when US forces obliterated an apparent semi-submersible “low profile” vessel, “engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” killing one drug smuggler. Later in the week, US forces executed a land strike against a “big facility” in Venezuela, Trump said.
Today’s attack marks the 30th strike against drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.
Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike, according to SOUTHCOM.
At least 107 drug trafficking narco-terrorists have been killed since the beginning of the operations in early September.
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SOUTHCOM said in a statement,
On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No U.S. military forces were harmed.
Earlier on Monday, President Trump confirmed that US forces conducted a land strike against a drug trafficking facility in Venezuela.
“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago.
Earlier this month, US forces also began seizing Venezuelan oil tankers after Trump ordered a full blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela.
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