The US military on Saturday executed another strike on a drug trafficking vessel operated by narcoterrorists under the new Operation Southern Spear program, the US Southern Command announced on Sunday.
On Nov. 15, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed. The vessel was trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific and was struck in international waters,” US South Com said in an X post.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Operation Southern Spear at the direction of President Donald Trump on Thursday.
“Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it,” he said on X:
President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering.
Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR.
Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our…
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 13, 2025
Per NewsNation, the latest strike marks at least the military’s 21st strike on a drug boat in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. At least 83 have reportedly been killed in the operations since September.
“At the same time, the U.S. military and Trinidad and Tobago’s military announced they started military drills on Sunday, and officials expect the drills to intensify as Trump considers whether to strike Venezuela,” the outlet reports.
This strike comes days after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday told reporters that the campaign against narcoterrorists in the Caribbean “is going to continue, and the President has made it very clear he’s not going to allow terrorists to bring illegal drugs that kill American citizens into our great country.”
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As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump also stated that he has “made up [his] mind” on Venezuela, but declined to disclose his plans to reporters.
“We’ll see what happens. I mean, I can’t tell you what it is, but we’ve made a lot of progress on Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs from pouring in.”
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