Pete Hegseth, strike and the vessel
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The U.S. military killed five alleged drug smugglers in strikes against two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, in an expansion of the Trump administration's use of the armed forces in its counter-narcotics campaign.
Ecuador has released the survivor of a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, citing no evidence the man committed a crime.