SOUTHCOM says 8 narco-terrorists killed in latest Eastern Pacific lethal kinetic strikes

The United States Southern Command announced Monday that the United States carried retired "lethal" strikes connected aggregate vessels operated by designated violent organizations, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 narco-terrorists.

"On Dec. 15, astatine the absorption of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes connected 3 vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations successful planetary waters," the U.S. Southern Command said successful a station connected X. 

Intelligence reportedly detected suspicious enactment on the Eastern Pacific, wherever the vessels were traveling known narco-trafficking routes.

"Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting on known narco-trafficking routes successful the Eastern Pacific and were engaged successful narco-trafficking," the portion said. 

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the strikes, according to SOUTHCOM. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

"A full of 8 antheral narco-terrorists were killed during these actions—three successful the archetypal vessel, 2 successful the 2nd and 3 successful the third," the portion added. A full of 94 alleged narco-terrorists person been killed since the cognition began.

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Surveillance footage shows a monolithic detonation aft U.S. forces onslaught a vas reportedly operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. ( U.S. Southern Command)

The U.S. has conducted dozens of strikes connected suspected drug-trafficking vessels successful the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean to dismantle narco-terrorist networks, targeting groups specified arsenic Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional.

The run began Sept. 2 with a onslaught that killed 11 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, followed by further operations that reportedly eliminated dozens much crossed known trafficking routes.

A vas operated by designated violent organizations earlier getting struck by U.S. forces successful the Eastern Pacific. ( U.S. Southern Command)

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U.S. forces person reportedly deed assorted types of vessels including submersibles, sportfishing boats and high-speed vessels.

Earlier this month, the Trump medication launched its "Fentanyl Free America" plan, with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reporting that strikes connected suspected Caribbean cause vessels are helping curb the travel of amerciable drugs into the U.S.