Trump Orders Lethal Strike On Third Drug Vessel, Killing Three Narcos

President Trump announced Friday in a post on Truth Social that he ordered a third military strike targeting a drug-trafficking vessel operating in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility, killing all three male “narcoterrorists” onboard.

“On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account Friday evening. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans.” RELATED: Chuck Todd Blows His Lid Over Trump Admin Striking Terrorist Narco Boat

ON VIDEO: U.S. Military Forces conducted a strike against a designated terrorist organization engaged in narcotrafficking. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics and was en route to poison Americans. The strike killed three male narcoterrorists. pic.twitter.com/wjxRRMrxwB

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 20, 2025

The strike conducted is the third of its kind just in the last month, as the administration ramps up its efforts to curb drug trafficking from Venezuela to the United States. In February, the Trump administration designated drug cartel groups like Tren de Aragua, Cartel de los Soles, the Sinaloa Cartel, and others as foreign terrorist organizations. 

In response to the deployment of U.S. forces, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whose government has connections to the Cartel de los Soles, made thinly veiled threats against America. In August, Maduro said he would defend “[our] seas, our skies and our lands” and called the deployment an “outlandish, bizarre threat of a declining empire.” 

.@USTreasury just sanctioned Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist group. Run by the corrupt & contemptable Nicolás Maduro, it is responsible for trafficking drugs into the U.S. Help us take down Maduro and his cronies Diosdado Cabello Rondón & Vladimir Padrino López! pic.twitter.com/6mQZ59WgbB

— US Dept of State INL (@StateINL) July 29, 2025

The State Department has set a bounty of 25 million dollars for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Nicolas Maduro.