Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. military conducted what he called a “lethal kinetic strike” on a suspected narco-vessel in the Caribbean Sea that he associated with Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist terror organization.

The ELN is one of the most powerful Marxist terrorist groups in Colombia, alongside the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Both groups largely sustain their operations – which involve the conquest of rural territory, assassination and threats of local conservative politicians, and association with other international terrorist entities – through drug trafficking, particularly cocaine. At their peak , the FARC were the world’s wealthiest terrorist organization, making more money that al-Qaeda, the Taliban, a

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