Hegseth Announces New Lethal Strike on Cartel Boat in Pacific

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the United States military had carried out a new lethal strike on a suspected cartel boat somewhere in the Pacific ocean.

Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be… pic.twitter.com/BayDhUZ4Ac

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025

The news comes as tensions between the United States and Venezeula have approached a boiling point over the South American country’s alleged support for drug trafficking organizations.

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