The U.S. military destroyed another narco-terrorist vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Monday, marking the latest escalation in a sweeping crackdown on transnational crime under the Trump administration.
According to U.S. Southern Command, the strike was ordered by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and targeted a suspected smuggling boat operated by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization traveling through international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was moving along well-known drug-trafficking corridors and engaged in active narco operations.
“Two male narco-terrorists were killed. No U.S. military forces were harmed,” Southern Command posted on X, along with video footage of the strike.
The mission was part of Joint Task Force Southern Spear, a multi-agency operation launched to combat drug cartels and terrorist-linked traffickers across the Western Hemisphere. Monday’s operation marked the task force’s thirtieth successful interdiction, bringing the total number of suspected narco-terrorists taken off the battlefield to at least 106.
The latest strike comes just as President Donald Trump confirmed that U.S. forces had recently destroyed a major drug-loading facility at a Venezuelan port used by traffickers to prepare smuggling vessels.
“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said during remarks Monday. “We hit all the boats, and now we hit the area… it’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement, and that is no longer around.”
The New York Times reported that the CIA conducted the Venezuela strike, which targeted a port controlled by Tren de Aragua, a violent gang recently added to the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization list by the Trump administration. No casualties were reported in that operation.
The dual strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Venezuela underscore the Trump administration’s growing use of military force against criminal networks that blend drug smuggling with terrorism. The White House has argued that these organizations pose a direct threat to national security by destabilizing allied nations and flooding the U.S. with narcotics.
Last week, the administration deployed a massive contingent of special operations forces, aircraft, and military hardware to the southern Caribbean as part of its pressure campaign against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
“He can do whatever he wants,” Trump said. “We have a massive armada formed, the biggest we’ve ever had — by far the biggest we’ve ever had in South America. He could do whatever he wants. It’s alright. Whatever he wants to do, if he wants to do something. If he plays tough, it’ll be the last time he’s ever able to play tough.”
The back-to-back strikes, combined with troop deployments near Venezuela, send a clear message to both cartels and rogue regimes: America is no longer tolerating terror-fueled trafficking on its doorstep.
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