{"id":2489488,"date":"2025-09-22T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boat-destroyed-by-us-was-carrying-2000-pounds-of-cocaine-dominican-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:16:46","slug":"boat-destroyed-by-us-was-carrying-2000-pounds-of-cocaine-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boat-destroyed-by-us-was-carrying-2000-pounds-of-cocaine-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat destroyed by US was carrying 2,000 pounds of cocaine: Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dominican republic confirmed that a boat destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, announced by President Donald Trump, was carrying approximately 2,000 pounds (about 1,000 kilograms) of suspected cocaine. The Dominican National Directorate for Drug Control and the Dominican Navy seized 377 packages of cocaine from the targeted “speedboat of narcoterrorists.” This operation marked the first joint anti-narcoterrorism effort<\/a> between the United States and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

The strike took place about 80 miles south of isla Beata, near the Dominican RepublicS southern coast, and was part of a series of U.S. defensive actions against drug traffickers. Previous strikes targeted other drug vessels linked to Venezuelan criminal gangs. Trump authorized the attack,which killed three suspected narcoterrorists aboard the vessel without harm to U.S.forces.<\/p>\n

Following the strike, Dominican officials conducted a search operation to recover the remaining cocaine packages; 60 packages were destroyed during the airstrike itself.The intensified U.S. military actions against drug cartels in Latin America have raised legal questions<\/a> and prompted scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers, who have sought to limit the president’s authority to conduct such strikes.

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