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The United States made this Monday three new attacks against three vessels allegedly operated by drug traffickers in the Eastern Pacific, near the coast of Colombia, killing eight people, as announced by the Southern Command in a message published in a new episode of the operation Southern Spear.
The publication made on social networks by the US Army is accompanied by a video that captures the exact moment of impact of the projectiles against the alleged drug boats. The operation, according to the Southern Command, was authorized by the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth against “terrorist organizations.”
Military intelligence justified the attack, carried out in international waters, saying that the vessels were moving through known drug trafficking routes and they actively participated in the transportation of drugs and weapons.
On Dec. 15, at the direction of @Secwar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known… pic.twitter.com/IQfCVvUpau
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) December 16, 2025
The Army reported that the eight dead were all menthree of them in two of the boats and two in the remaining boat. The three attacks brought the number of attacks on drug boats to 25.
According to the Task Force office, this operation is part of the operation Southern Spearwhose strategic objective is to interrupt the flow of drugs and neutralize terrorist threats that use maritime routes for their illicit activities. The president Donald Trump He has justified these actions by ensuring that the United States is at war against the drug cartels.
Since the beginning of the campaign, last September, the US Army has sunk more than twenty vessels in the waters of both the Pacific and the Caribbean, killing at least 95 people. The bombings have generated outrage among experts and members of Congress, who argue that attacking unarmed civilians breaks the rules of war.
The new attack occurs in a context in which President Donald Trump has repeatedly assured that he will begin military operations on the ground in Venezuela to end drug trafficking and the regime of Nicolas Maduroclassified as a “narcoterrorist organization.”
Last week, Trump assured that the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, was “next”, in reference to the pressure strategy he is carrying out against the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro.