The United States War Department carried out a new attack this Wednesday against another boat attributed to drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific and four people who were on board the boat died during the operation.
The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, reported in his X account that the ship was identified by the intelligence services and they claim that “it was transiting a known drug trafficking route and was carrying narcotics.”
“Four male narcoterrorists were on board the ship and died,” Hegseth added.
With this new attack, there are now fifteen vessels destroyed by US forces in international waters, half of them in the Pacific, and which the US links to drug trafficking activities, since the beginning of the Southern Command military campaign that initially focused on the Caribbean, near Venezuelan waters.
Last week, US President Donald Trump assured that he does not rule out attacks on ground targets in Venezuela and Colombia, always related to drug trafficking, and added that if these maneuvers are carried out, he will notify Congress.
More context: US attacks ships in the Pacific and kills 14 people; Mexico coordinates rescue of survivor
With information from EFE.
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