<p>The U.S. military blew up another suspected <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-lethal-kinetic-strike-hegseth-says-u-s-has-taken-out-another-drug-boat">drug boat</a> in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed.</p>
<p>Hegseth shared a dramatic video of “yet another lethal kinetic strike” on X. Three “narco-terrorists” aboard the vessel were killed, according to the Secretary of War.</p>
<p>It’s the ninth such U.S. strike on a suspected drug smuggling vessel said to be bound for the U.S. in recent months. And the effort is expected to continue.</p>
<p>“These strikes will continue, day after day. These are not simply drug runners—these are narco-terrorists bringing death and destruction to our cities. These DTOs [Drug Trafficking Organizations] are the ‘Al Qaeda&#8217; of our hemisphere and will not escape justice. We will find them and kill them, until the threat to the American people is extinguished.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Yet again, the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.</p>
<p>The… <a href="https://t.co/PEaKmakivD">pic.twitter.com/PEaKmakivD</a></p>
<p>— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecWar/status/1981167670989926902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The Trump administration has focused its strikes on vessels traversing the Caribbean, while pressuring countries like Venezuela and Colombia to crack down on drug trafficking.</p>
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<p>Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has called the strikes “a military attack on civilians who were not at war and were not militarily threatening any country,” while accusing the Trump administration of “seeking a regime change” in the Latin American country.</p>
<p>The U.S. has authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela against the country’s socialist dictator, while tagging him as complicit in the drug trade.</p>
<p>“We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come through the sea, so you get to see that, but we’re gonna stop them by land also,” President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday.</p>
<p>“I think Venezuela’s feeling heat, but I think a lot of other countries are feeling heat too. We’re not going to let this country, our country, be ruined because other people want to drop their worst. They have given us their worst, they’ve loaded up our country with prisoners,” the president added.</p>
<p>Colombian President Gustavo Petro has also sparred with Trump over the counternarcotics operations, telling Univision Monday that it may be necessary to “get rid of” the U.S. president.</p>
<p>“Humanity has a first offramp, it is to choose to change Trump in various ways,” Petro told Univision’s Daniel Coronell.</p>
<p>“The easiest way may be through Trump himself. If not, get rid of Trump,” he said while snapping his fingers.</p>
<p>But Trump is only doubling down.</p>
<p>“He’s a thug and bad guy. He’s a guy that is making a lot of drugs,” Trump told The Daily Wire’s White House Correspondent, Mary Margaret Olohan Wednesday.</p>
<p>“He better watch it or we’ll take very serious action against him and his country,” he added.</p>

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