Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released video Sunday of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat at sea.
The American military under President Donald Trump conducted multiple strikes against vessels believed to be engaged in running drugs since Sept. 2, when a boat carrying 11 members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) was sunk. Hegseth said the latest strike took place Friday and targeted the National Liberation Army, also known as Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Colombian terrorist group.
“On October 17th, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Designated Terrorist Organization, that was operating in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Hegseth stated in a Sunday X post which included a video of the takedown. “The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics.”
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