The American soldiers strike the narcotrafficking ship off the Venezuelan coast
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The war secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced on Friday that the American army had led a deadly kinetic strike on a narcotrafficking narcathing affiliated with designated terrorist organizations traveling off the coast of Venezuela, killing four men on board.
No American forces was injured in the command of the South American, who was ordered by President Donald Trump, according to Hegseth.
“The strike was carried out in international waters right next to the coasts of Venezuela while the ship carried substantial quantities of narcotics – headed for America to poison our people,” Hegseth wrote in a post.
Trump orders the “lethal kinetic strike” on a drug trafficking boat in international waters, three killed
Several alleged narco-terrorists were killed on Friday after a kinetic strike led by President Donald Trump. (@Secwar via x)
The secretary said military intelligence, “without a doubt,” confirmed that the ship, trafficked with narcotics, people on board were narcoterrorists and they operated on a known transit route.
In an article on Truth Social, Trump said that the boat was “responsible for enough drugs to kill 25 to 50,000 people”.
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered a deadly strike on a ship linked to a designated terrorist organization operating in the Southern Command responsibility on September 19. (@Realdonaldtrump via social social)
American soldiers make a second strike on Venezuelan narcoterrorists in international waters
The strike follows a series of successes in September on boats suspected of having transported drugs along the crossing of known narcotics.
On September 2, American forces struck a ship linked to Tren de Aragua in the South of the Caribbean, killing 11 members of alleged gangs.
Subsequent counterpart boats strikes on September 15 and September 19 have killed a total of six people, Fox News Digital News previously reported.
The video sequences showed a ship shortly before being destroyed from Venezuela on September 2, 2025. (@Realdonaldtrump via social social)
The United States is strengthening military presence in the Caribbean near Venezuela in the middle of Trump’s efforts to stop drug trafficking
Hegseth noted that the strikes will continue “until the attacks on the American people are finished !!!!”
The Trump administration in February has appointed drug groups, notably Tren of Aragua and the Sinaloa cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations.
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Sophia Compton by Fox News Digita contributed to this report.
