THREE suspected narco-terrorists are the latest to die in Donald Trump’s continued strikes against illegal boats trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific.
Dramatic footage shows the moment a boat was lined up by a target, before missiles were deployed to take them out.
Viewers can see the haunting moment the missiles connect with the ship, blowing it and everyone on it to smithereens.
The strike brings the total number of suspected narco-terrorists killed to 82, with just three survivors in The Don’s ongoing “war on drugs”.
In a post to social media platform X, U.S. Southern Command said intelligence had confirmed the vessel hit during Thursday’s strike had been smuggling drugs along a known trafficking route.
The command described the strike as a “lethal kinetic operation”.
It was undertaken in international waters, forming part of a broader effort to disrupt transnational criminal networks.
Operation Southern Spear was officially launched by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Thursday.
The operation is a new mission that will target narco-terror networks across Latin America.
Hegseth said the US Southern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Spear would lead the mission to “defend the homeland” and take down drug trafficking organisations.
“This mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Hegseth said.
Just last week, the US carried out 20 strikes on boats suspected to be drug-trafficking ships, with four alleged narco-terrorists killed, according to a Pentagon official.
Since September, the strikes across the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean have taken out numerous vessels, with many believed to be tied to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and Colombia’s Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional.
In October, Trump praised the Navy’s efforts to “blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water”.
The latest strikes come as Trump’s most advanced and most powerful aircraft carrier – the USS Gerald R. Ford – thundered into the Caribbean Sea on Sunday.
The American steel giant is now cutting through turquoise waters as fears of a showdown with Venezuela sharpen.
The Ford’s arrival caps the largest U.S. military buildup in the region in generations and lands just as Nicolás Maduro makes a surreal, last-ditch peace plea by belting out John Lennon’s Imagine.
Washington insists the deployment is about drugs, but few in the region believe that anymore.
The operation in the Caribbean Sea marks America’s biggest military mobilisation since the Iraq war.
Washington has accused Venezuela’s regime, led by Maduro and his top aides, of flooding drugs inside the American territory.
