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The U.S. subject said Monday (December 22, 2025) that it had conducted different onslaught against a vessel it said was smuggling drugs successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean, sidesplitting 1 person.
In a societal media post, U.S. Southern Command said, “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vas was transiting on known narco-trafficking routes successful the Eastern Pacific and was engaged successful narco-trafficking operations.” Southern Command provided nary grounds that the vas was engaged successful cause smuggling.
A video posted by U.S. Southern Command shows splashes of h2o adjacent 1 broadside of the boat. After a 2nd salvo, the rear of the vessel catches fire. More splashes engulf the trade and the occurrence grows. In the last 2nd of the video, the vas tin beryllium seen adrift with a ample spot of occurrence alongside it.
Earlier videos of U.S. vessel strikes showed vessels abruptly exploding, suggesting rocket strikes. Some onslaught videos adjacent had disposable rocket-like projectiles coming down connected the boats.
The Trump medication has said the strikes were meant to halt the travel of drugs into the U.S. and summation unit connected Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
At slightest 105 radical person been killed successful 29 known strikes since aboriginal September. The strikes person faced scrutiny from US lawmakers and quality rights activists, who accidental the medication has offered scant grounds that its targets are so cause smugglers and accidental the fatal strikes magnitude to extrajudicial killings.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard has stepped up efforts to interdict lipid tankers successful the Caribbean Sea arsenic portion of the Trump administration's escalating run against Maduro.
