U.S. Destroys 4 Narco Vessels, 1 Survivor Rescued

Washington, D.C. — Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of War, announced that on Monday, October 27, the U.S. Southern Command destroyed four vessels in the Pacific Ocean and executed 14 of their 15 crew members, and that the case for rescuing the sole survivor was accepted by Mexican authorities.

"Yesterday, under the direction of President (Donald) Trump, the Department of War carried out three precise attacks in the Eastern Pacific against four vessels operated by organizations designated as Terrorist for narcotics trafficking," Hegseth informed via his official account on the platform X.

The head of the Pentagon, without providing details, indicated that the four destroyed vessels were detected by the Department of War's intelligence systems while transiting a "known route" in the Pacific for drug trafficking.

"Eight narco-terrorist men were on board vessels during the first attack, four narco-terrorist men were on board during the second attack, three narco-terrorist men were on board during the third attack. A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed during the three attacks and there was one survivor," Hegseth stated, noting that there were no casualties among Pentagon forces.

With this incident involving the use of lethal force by the Department of War against the alleged narco-terrorist groups, the Trump administration has now destroyed 14 vessels since September 2 of this year and has extrajudicially executed more than half a hundred people in the waters of the Pacific and the Caribbean.

"Regarding the survivor, the Southern Command immediately initiated protocol search and rescue operations; the Mexican search and rescue authorities (Navy) accepted the case and responsibility to coordinate the salvage," Hegseth noted.

Last week, the Secretary of War from President Trump's cabinet announced the deployment of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford to the waters of the Caribbean, as part of the United States' militarized strategy to combat drug trafficking.

Although the navigation of the powerful aircraft carrier, allegedly in international waters, is considered a deterrent and a threat to narco-terrorism groups in the region, it is also considered an act of political pressure on Venezuela to bring about a regime change and end that of Nicolás Maduro.

The Trump administration has declared the Venezuelan leader as the head of the narco-terrorist groups, the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua, offering a reward of up to 50 million dollars for information leading to his capture and judicial process.

In parallel, Trump gave the order to the CIA agent to carry out covert operations within Venezuela, allegedly to counter narco-terrorism, although in Washington this was cataloged as actions to provoke a coup d'état.

On another note, Trump said again last week that he could order the Pentagon to carry out operations on land against narco-terrorism without the need to evoke a declaration of war and even without consulting the federal Congress of his country to obtain its authorization.

"Narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda and will be treated as such. We will track them, we will follow them, we will hunt them and then we will kill them," Hegseth concluded in his message.