(Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that military operations against those trafficking illegal narcotics would not stop with the strike that took place yesterday against a vessel from Venezuela.

“We’ve got assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships, because this is a deadly serious mission for us, and it won’t it won’t stop with just this strike,” Hegseth said on Fox News.

“Anyone else trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated Narco terrorist will face the same fate,” Hegseth said.

The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration’s recent deployment of warships to the southern

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