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Montevideo, November 14th 2025 - 20:37 UTC

Tag: Pete Hegseth

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

    US launches “Operation Southern Spear” against narco-terrorists

    US acting on Trump's orders, Hegseth noted

    US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the formal launch of Operation Southern Spear on Thursday, a major military offensive led by the Southern Command (Southcom) aimed at “eliminating narco-terrorists from our hemisphere.”

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  • Wednesday, October 29th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    New US attacks leave 14 dead in Pacific Ocean

    These latest assaults bring the total number of maritime airstrikes to 13 and the death toll to at least 57

    The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it executed three new strikes against alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 people in the deadliest single wave of attacks so far in President Donald Trump's intensified military campaign against illegal narcotics.

  • Saturday, October 25th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    US strike kills six on Caribbean boat

    So far, 43 alleged drug traffickers have been killed by US operations north of South America

    The US military conducted a “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel in international waters overnight Thursday, killing six people described as “narco-terrorists,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday.

  • Thursday, October 23rd 2025 - 10:29 UTC

    US hits second boat in the Pacific

    Hegseth likened these boats' crewmembers to Al Qaeda terrorists

    US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US Southern Command carried out a second “lethal kinetic strike” in the Pacific Ocean in less than 24 hours. Hegseth stated that these attacks will “continue, day after day,” and controversially dubbed the three crew members, all of whom perished in the attack, the “Al Qaeda” of “our hemisphere” who “will not escape justice.”

  • Tuesday, October 7th 2025 - 22:24 UTC

    Trump orders suspension of diplomatic contacts with Maduro amid Venezuela military crisis

    The directive, issued last Thursday, comes amid rising military tensions between Washington and Caracas. “We’ll see what phase two looks like,” Trump told reporters. Photo: Miraflores Palace

    U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a complete halt to diplomatic contacts with Nicolás Maduro’s government, marking a new escalation in Washington’s confrontation with Venezuela. According to The New York Times, the president instructed his special envoy to the country, Richard Grenell, to cease any outreach or dialogue with the Chavista regime.

  • Monday, October 6th 2025 - 08:23 UTC

    US strikes yet another alleged drug-trafficking boat in Caribbean

    “They're not coming by sea anymore, so now we'll have to start looking on land,” Trump warned Sunday

    US President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth publicly confirmed and defended the recent attacks on vessels in the Caribbean Sea, escalating the administration's “war on drugs” by characterizing the cartels as “narco-terrorists” and the operations as “acts of war.”

  • Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 18:59 UTC

    US hits another vessel near Venezuela, killing 4

    Hegseth posted a video of the attack

    US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that his country's forces carried out a lethal and kinetic attack ordered by President Donald Trump against a “drug trafficking vessel affiliated with designated terrorist organizations” near the coast of Venezuela.