Trump’s Military Destroys Suspected Narco Boat: Dramatic Footage Emerges

The US has launched it’s first attack on a small boat allegedly ‘carrying drugs’ after Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro was snatched and arrested

This is the moment the US struck and blew up an alleged drug-trafficking boat, killing two people.

Chilling footage shared by the US Southern Command showed a lethal strike blasting a small motor vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The USSC claimed the small boat was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” but did not provide evidence to back up those claims. The small boat could be seen zooming through the water, in the video, before it was taken over by a blinding light from the explosion.

Two people were killed in the strike and a search operation was launched for a survivor on Friday, according to Trump’s government.

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The USSC said it “conducted a lethal kinetic strike” on a “vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations”, it claimed.

The department, led by Pete Hegseth, cited “intelligence” for allegedly confirming the boat had been “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific”. The USSC also described the two victims as “narco-terrorists”.

Despite citing intelligence, evidence was not provided by the US government into the drug trafficking claims and the identities of the three people on the vessel were not shared.

Friday’s strike marks the first known attack on alleged drug boats since Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped and brought to the US.

Before his capture, Trump’s troops had launched more than 30 strikes on boats it claimed had been involved in the illegal trade, off South America, killing around 100 people.

Despite Trump’s claims the people on these vessels were criminals, some have suggested many of these boats could have held innocent fishermen at sea for work.

One family shared their anguish and said a 42-year-old fisherman set out to sea, on September 14, but never returned home. Alejandro Carranza left from a remote town in La Guajira, near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, and a day later the US government announced it hit a “drug” boat in the Caribbean Sea.

His childhood friend Leonardo Vega, speaking to Aljazeera, said: “When I heard Alejandro hadn’t come back, my first thought was that he might have been caught in the bombing.” Carranza’s family has denied the US President’s claims that he was a “narco-terrorist” and his loved ones said he was a lifelong fisherman.

The Trump administration has appeared to mostly turn it’s attention towards seizing oil tankers. Several tankers have been taken over and brought to the US.

The Republican administration has also sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela as part of a broader crackdown on the worldwide illegal oil trade.