The U.S. military has struck another boat in the Caribbean that the Pentagon alleges was trafficking drugs, killing four people on board, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday.

The strike on the vessel off the coast of Venezuela marks the Administration’s fourth such deadly military action in what President Donald Trump has declared is a formal “armed conflict” with cartels.

“Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Hegseth wrote on X, adding the boat was “transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people.”

“Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel

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