AP Uses 'Nuanced' to Admit Destroyed Venezuelan Boats Carried Drugs

Newsbusters ^ | November 10, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Despite detailed photographic evidence to the contrary, many liberals continue to assert that the Venezuelan boats recently destroyed by the U.S. Navy are merely fishing, not drug, boats. The Associated Press has jumped into the fray and in a roundabout "nuanced" way admitted that the destroyed boats are indeed drug boats. The "nuance" comes in via the AP asserting that among the crews of the drug boats, some worked mostly as fishermen or other low paying jobs with drug smuggling only as a side gig to boost their income.

The AP reluctantly made the 'nuanced' admission that the destroyed boats were drug boats on Friday with this report by Reginia Garcia Cano, "Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced."

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KEYWORDS: ap; boats; clickbait; drugboats; media; nuanced; r; randpauldonors; smuggling; venezuela

[libertylover]

The videos that I’ve seen of the boats being destroyed sure as hell weren’t fishing boats.

[xone]

Every boat that has been hit: The US ‘knows’ who is on them, when they leave where they are going, and what they are hauling. If you haul for the cartels, you are working for them.

[xone]

I believe the military gives the boat operators a chance to surrender via radio or shots across the bow,

No, they probably don't. We have intel on all these boats before they leave. Unlawful combatants don't rate anything. You participate, you die, just like a pirate.

[woodbutcher1963]

The “cost” of smuggling has to be going up considerably.
Meaning that you have to be in a pretty desperate situation to be the operator of one of these vessels now that we are blowing them up regularly.

It is not like getting picked up by the US Coast Guard you might end up with three hots and a cot in some gringo prison. Just like the people that would swallow 32 pellets of Cocaine and get on a flight to Miami. The odds are the bags will not burst. IF they do, your dead.

Now, who is going to want to be the driver of these boats?

[EandH Dad]

Sorry, not sorry. These guys knew what they were getting into. The bigger the payout, the bigger the risk. They knew what the cargo was and they knew the danger.

[Seruzawa]

Poor fishermen with 3 $80,000 motors attached to their boats.

[xone]

I’m not sure the dopes they get to drive these things know yet the others’ fate.

[Pearfect]

AP

ALL PROPAGANDA

[Pearfect]

AP

ALL PROPAGANDA

[packrat35]

some worked mostly as fishermen or other low paying jobs with drug smuggling only as a side gig to boost their income.

So, they were drug boats.

[KTM rider]

In my opinion, this is not a good thing. Nuanced or not. I do not like the idea of a military that goes around killing people and sinking boats suspected of "narco terrorism", it stinks of something a fascist dictatorship would do.

based on the info given , I am embarrassed of my nations military action lately, it reminds of something nazis or soviets would do

is it just me who thinks it is wrong for the us navy to declare smuggling an instant death penalty ?

and the definition of terrorism is committing violence to force political will, I dont see that here, I did see it with COVID, Fauci , Gates and the rest of big pharma, when are they going to send the US Navy to blow up the W.H.O. ?

and Bill gates and Fauci should be shot on sight by Navy Seals ?,

but this action is a huge stretch, what are the "rules of engagement in the "war on drugs" , makes it hard for me to wave a flag, it actually makes me ashamed

and alcohol destroys more lives than these "terrorists" with a few tons of cocaine or heroine could ever dream of affecting "for political gain"

Has the USA gone insane ? or am I becoming a "liberal"

[DennisR]

No mercy to criminals profiting from bringing illegal/lethal drugs into my country. If anyone chooses to do this, they are risking their own lives, not the lives of others. They should suffer the consequences, including sudden death.

[xone]

Has the USA gone insane ? or am I becoming a "liberal"

You're a lib. Narcos are a designated terror org. Did you cry when Al Qaeda got it? ISIS? Read LOAC, these are unlawful combatants.

[BenLurkin]

When a felon’s not engaged in his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man’s
Our feelings we with difficulty smother
When constabulary duty is to be done
Taking one consideration with another
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duties to be done, to be done
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When the enterprising burglar’s not a-burgling
When the cutthroat isn’t occupied in crime
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling
And listen to the merry village chime
When the coster’s finished jumping on his mother
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun
Taking one consideration with another
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When the drunkard shows no sign of where the drink went
He nobly bids all alchohol farewell
When the juvenile delinquent to the clink went
He hung his mother’s picture in his cell
When the cardshark’s finished wiping out his brother
He buys a rattle for his little son
Taking one consideration with another
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duties to be done, to be done
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one

[ridesthemiles]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FISHING BOAT OF THAT PROFILE-—NOR ONE USING 4-5 HIGH POWERED OUTBOARDS.

CITY PEOPLE MUST WORK HARD TO BE THAT IGNORANT.

[ridesthemiles]

SOME MOST LIKELY ALREADY HAVE-—THEY JUST CANNOT ADMIT THE SOURCE

[ridesthemiles]

OR 4 OR 5

[ridesthemiles]

NO ONE USES A NASCAR VEHICLE TO GO TO WALMART, EITHER

[Professional]

It’s a baby milk factory boat?

[ViLaLuz]

Hmmmm swift boat officer John Kerry used to use the word “nuanced” a lot. He must have thought it sounded classy.