U.S. forces struck a pair of drug trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific on Nov. 9, as part of a continuing U.S. military campaign along the coast of South and Central America.
“Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, two lethal kinetic strikes were conducted on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a Nov. 10 X post announcing the latest U.S. strikes.
Hegseth said there were three individuals, whom he described as “male narco-terrorists,” aboard each of the two vessels. He said all six were killed in the pair of attacks.
“These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling, were carrying narcotics, and were transiting along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific,” Hegseth added….