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The attack took place on Wednesday, December 31, according to the Southern Command American in a message in X in which the geographical area in which the bombing occurred is not specified.
The message simply states that the attack was carried out “against two vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations” and that US intelligence “confirmed that the vessels were transiting known drug trafficking routes and were participating in drug trafficking activities.”
On Dec. 31, at the direction of @Secwar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and… pic.twitter.com/4AE5u4cEff
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) January 1, 2026
“A total of five narcoterrorists died during these actions: three in the first boat and two in the second,” concludes the text, which is accompanied, as usual, by video images of the bombings.
The footage, of just 21 seconds longshows the bombing of both boats.
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The announcement comes just hours after the Southern Command, which heads the so-called Southern Spear operation, announced that it had destroyed three other boats on December 30 and killed at least two of its occupants.
As in the operation undertaken on December 31, the US Armed Forces They did not explain whether the attack occurred in the southern Caribbean or the eastern Pacificthe two scenarios where Washington has already summarily destroyed almost 40 alleged drug boats and killed nearly 110 people since last September.
Since the summer, the Pentagon has maintained a military deployment unprecedented in decades in the southern Caribbean while Washington has been warning that its objective is for Maduro and his lieutenants, whom it accuses of leading a narco-state, to abandon power.
At the same time, the Government of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has begun to argue in recent weeks that Chavismo has stolen the facilities and assets of American oil companies in Venezuela and has announced that it will confiscate tankers transporting Venezuelan crude, something it has already done twice.
Added to all this is the attack, announced enigmatically by Trump this week, on a dock on the Venezuelan coast supposedly used by the criminal gang Tren de Aragua and which would represent the first bombing against a target in Venezuelan territory by Washington.