JUST IN: US Destroys 30th Venezuelan Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Days After First Land Strike in Venezuela

[Darkwind]

"We just knocked out — I don't know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from," Trump said in the interview. "Two nights ago we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard."

Trump says U.S. took out a 'big facility' as part of strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela

Good. I had the same question, but I see that Trump once again managed to get ahead of the sedious Media.

 

[JGalt]

Venezuela reported the chemical company fire as being "minor".

 

[Darkwind]

Venezuela reported the chemical company fire as being "minor".

It's nothing, really.

 

[JGalt]

It's nothing, really.

'tis just a scratch.

 

[JGalt]

Well lookie here: CNN (fake news) is reporting that the CIA carried out a drone strike on a Venezuelan port facility, somewhere around the same time.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/cia-drone-strike-venezuela

Could it be?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The drug smugglers are being given a Darwin test

 

[JoeB131]

From Wikipedia:

Pacific strikes

"The US struck another alleged drug boat on 21 October, killing at least two individuals, marking the first strike to take place in the Pacific Ocean.[89][90] An unnamed US official said the strike occurred off the Colombian coast.[91] A second strike in the Pacific on 22 October killed three.[92]

Guy, I don't doubt Cheeto Hitler is blowing up boats in the Pacific.

But where's the evidence they are 'Venezuelan drug Boats"? Venezuela doesn't have any Pacific Ports.

 

[JoeB131]

The land strike was most likely the one reported by the Venezuelan media as being a "fire", that occurred on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025. Probably the warehouse belonging to the chemical production company Primazol in an industrial zone near the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state.

So the mighty American Military is engaging in petty arson?

 

[JGalt]

Guy, I don't doubt Cheeto Hitler is blowing up boats in the Pacific.

But where's the evidence they are 'Venezuelan drug Boats"? Venezuela doesn't have any Pacific Ports.

That wouldn't be so hard to find out if you really wanted to know the answer...

"Venezuelan drug boats are found in the Eastern Pacific because they are involved in a larger drug trafficking network that uses transshipment points and various routes, often in coordination with other criminal organizations in countries that do have a Pacific coastline. Venezuela primarily serves as a transit country for drugs produced in neighboring Colombia.

Here's how the network operates despite Venezuela's lack of a Pacific shoreline:

• Transshipment through Intermediary Countries: Drugs are moved from Venezuela's Caribbean coast (or the interior border with Colombia) to nearby intermediary countries in the Caribbean or Central/South America via "go-fast" boats or small aircraft.
• Utilizing Pacific Coastlines: Once in countries with a Pacific coast, such as Colombia, Ecuador, or Panama, the cargo is transferred to larger vessels or other "low-profile" boats for the journey north through the Eastern Pacific Ocean towards the United States or Mexico.
• Coordination between Cartels: Venezuelan criminal groups, sometimes referred to as "cartels" by US officials, are alleged to coordinate with other organizations like the Colombian ELN or Mexican cartels who manage the Pacific routes.
• Primary US Trafficking Route: According to the U.S. DEA, nearly three-quarters of the cocaine reaching the U.S. is trafficked via the Pacific route, making it a major focus of counter-narcotics operations, including U.S. military strikes on suspected vessels in international waters of the Eastern Pacific.

In short, the boats themselves are operating in the Eastern Pacific as part of a multi-national drug supply chain, even though their original point of origin or the groups operating them may be based in Venezuela."

 

[JGalt]

So the mighty American Military is engaging in petty arson?

It's not "petty arson" if the intelligence says the company is manufacturing chemicals used in the production of drugs. This isn't like the aspirin factory Clinton bombed in Sudan in 1998.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Bitterhook]

How hard is it to grow the economy when it is so terrible you could bring in a truckload of toilet paper and double the GDP selling it (figuratively speaking, but you should get the point)?

 

[Ringo]

How hard is it to grow the economy when it is so terrible you could bring in a truckload of toilet paper and double the GDP selling it (figuratively speaking, but you should get the point)?

People from a country whose debt is in the tens of trillions and growing rapidly should not be discussing economic growth in other countries. However, some individuals do not have a clue...

 

[Woodznutz]

This time is was a semi-submersible “low profile” vessel.

Those Venezuelan fishermen must have a lot of money of they can afford submarines.

JUST IN: US DESTROYS 30th Venezuelan Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Days After First Land Strike in Venezuela​

by Jordan Conradson Dec. 29, 2025 6:00 pm

US Southern Command announced the latest strike against a drug trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific in the Trump Administration’s campaign against narco-traffickers and the Venezuelan Maduro regime on Monday.

"This is the first strike against a boat since last Monday, when US forces obliterated an apparent semi-submersible “low profile” vessel, “engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” killing one drug smuggler. Later in the week, US forces executed a land strike against a “big facility” in Venezuela, Trump said.

Today’s attack marks the 30th strike against drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.

Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike, according to SOUTHCOM.

At least 107 drug trafficking narco-terrorists have been killed since the beginning of the operations in early September.

SOUTHCOM said in a statement,



Earlier on Monday, President Trump confirmed that US forces conducted a land strike against a drug trafficking facility in Venezuela.

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago."

JUST IN: US DESTROYS 30th Venezuelan Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Days After First Land Strike in Venezuela | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

This must still be very effective way to smuggle drugs regardless of these losses.

 

[Bitterhook]

People from a country whose debt is in the tens of trillions and growing rapidly should not be discussing economic growth in other countries. However, some individuals do not have a clue...

Okay, I guess I should apologize for assuming you were actually capable of getting the point, but thanks for clearing up exactly who is clueless.

 

[DonGlock26]

This time is was a semi-submersible “low profile” vessel.

Those Venezuelan fishermen must have a lot of money of they can afford submarines.

JUST IN: US DESTROYS 30th Venezuelan Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Days After First Land Strike in Venezuela​

by Jordan Conradson Dec. 29, 2025 6:00 pm

US Southern Command announced the latest strike against a drug trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific in the Trump Administration’s campaign against narco-traffickers and the Venezuelan Maduro regime on Monday.

"This is the first strike against a boat since last Monday, when US forces obliterated an apparent semi-submersible “low profile” vessel, “engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” killing one drug smuggler. Later in the week, US forces executed a land strike against a “big facility” in Venezuela, Trump said.

Today’s attack marks the 30th strike against drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.

Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike, according to SOUTHCOM.

At least 107 drug trafficking narco-terrorists have been killed since the beginning of the operations in early September.

SOUTHCOM said in a statement,



Earlier on Monday, President Trump confirmed that US forces conducted a land strike against a drug trafficking facility in Venezuela.

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago."

JUST IN: US DESTROYS 30th Venezuelan Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific Days After First Land Strike in Venezuela | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

 

[JoeB131]

That wouldn't be so hard to find out if you really wanted to know the answer...

"Venezuelan drug boats are found in the Eastern Pacific because they are involved in a larger drug trafficking network that uses transshipment points and various routes, often in coordination with other criminal organizations in countries that do have a Pacific coastline. Venezuela primarily serves as a transit country for drugs produced in neighboring Colombia.

So, wait, now, I'm trying to get the bizarre logic.

So the Venezuelans are smuggling cocaine from Colombia, and then sneaking it back into Colombia to put it on a boat in the Eastern Pacific, to send it, um, someplace.

Wouldn't it just make more sense to smuggle it from Colombia, where most of the cocaine has been coming from for the last 40 years?

 

[Bitterhook]

So, wait, now, I'm trying to get the bizarre logic.

So the Venezuelans are smuggling cocaine from Colombia, and then sneaking it back into Colombia to put it on a boat in the Eastern Pacific, to send it, um, someplace.

Wouldn't it just make more sense to smuggle it from Colombia, where most of the cocaine has been coming from for the last 40 years?

You mean like sending money to the federal government so they can waste more than half of it on all kinds of garbage, before sending whatever little is left back to the states?

 

[JoeB131]

You mean like sending money to the federal government so they can waste more than half of it on all kinds of garbage, before sending whatever little is left back to the states?

Okay, if that's how you think government works, I'm not sure there is much hope for you.

reality is, most of what the government spends is middle class entitlements that get to the people it's going to.

 

[Bitterhook]

reality is, most of what the government spends is middle class entitlements that get to the people it's going to.

Okay then, so most of the drugs the Venezuelans handle in conjunction with the Columbians end up going exactly where they were intended to go in the most efficient and frugal manner regardless of the fact they may travel to God knows where and have significant portions syphoned off as waste and the cost of doing business., kind of like the billions that were earmarked for middle class entitlements and ended up in Somalia.

You can believe that too if you feel like it.