US Department of Defense
Posted on 10/28/2025 1:54:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
US Department of Defense
One person survived the strikes and was rescued by Mexican search-and-rescue teams.
US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
Mexico's navy says it is still searching for a lone survivor approximately 400 miles (643km) from the Pacific coastal city of Acapulco.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.
The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump, mark an escalation in what it has cast as a campaign to stop narcotics from entering the US.
The strikes have drawn condemnation in the region and experts have questioned their legality. Members of the US Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have also raised concerns and questioned the president's authority to order them.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told her morning press conference "we do not agree with these attacks". She said she had asked the country's foreign minister, as well as representatives of the navy, to meet the US ambassador.
"We want all international treaties to be respected," she added.
At least 57 people have now been killed in the strikes, which has led to increasing tensions between the US and the governments of both Colombia and Venezuela.
Most strikes have taken place off the coast of South America, in the Caribbean, but recently the US has turned its attention to the Pacific Ocean as well.
In a statement on X, Hegseth said the four vessels that were hit on Monday "were known by our intelligence apparatus, transitioning along known narco-trafficking routes and carrying..."
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Dear drug runners: Dying ain’t much of a living.
Coke sharks are digging it. Soon a meme with Hunter/Malia snorting coke with a hammerhead.
The lure of letters of marque was the profit from the seized vessel. Only good thing on these boats are the outboards and the cash the crew has.
We've got informants all over the place. Deep cover LEOs, too. The cocaine monkeys have not had to fear anything since Reagan left office, and they've gotten very sloppy.
President Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
Outstanding movie! Yes, that scene fits right in.
[Dying ain’t much of a living.]
He had to come back ...
I thought that actor was more well-known
He sure seemed familiar when I watched
that one years ago
Exactly
You wonder where these boats are heading and who is awaiting their arrival, but I would guess the answer is some little port in Mexico and cartel members with plans to get the shipments ready for distribution and sales. That implies the normal procedure is to get the product into America (and other places) by some other means. I doubt they would sail more boats out of the same location to locations along the coasts of the U.S., Canada or Europe, anywhere else they want to sell.
This probably explains the strategy of destroying rather than following (covertly) the boats to their destination. They already know the destination(s) and nothing more can be gained from allowing more product to arrive in those ports.
The cartels are sure to look for a plan B if the trans-shipment pipeline breaks down.
But I could predict that the organizers will try to stage a false flag event where a credibly “wrong target” is blown out of the water (maybe not even by American military). Then what?
They’re not “alleged.”
That agrees with the latest report that they took out four boats in the eastern pacific at the same time
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