EAI brief: US Southern Command attacks boat in Eastern Pacific, killing 4 [video]

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Dec.2025, Words: 125) — The US attacked another shipping boat in the Eastern Pacific. This time killing 4 persons.

“On Dec. 4, at the direction of the secretary of war Pete Hegseth, joint task force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a designated terrorist organization,” the US Southern Command announced on 5 Dec. 2025 in a post on social media.

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According to the Southern Command, “intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed.”

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By Steve Stewart reporting from Baton Rouge. © 2025 Energy Analytics Institute (EAI). All Rights Reserved.