There's a possibility that it was not a drug boat, but an immigrant smuggling operation (Reply #2)

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2. There's a possibility that it was not a drug boat, but an immigrant smuggling operation

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 01:25 PM

Sep 4

Odds are slim that it was a human smuggling thing, but NYT reports that there were 11 people on the boat which would be very unusual for a narcotics operation. With no verifiable intel being released and no available debris to analyze, we'll probably never know.

But, here's a link to a BlueSky post on the matter:

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *â€™migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
— Eric Umansky (@ericumansky.bsky.social) 2025-09-04T00:32:32.452Z

And the NYT article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/politics/hegseth-venezuela-drug-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jU8._oRS.QhFYZjRo5Mb1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/politics/hegseth-venezuela-drug-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jU8._oRS.QhFYZjRo5Mb1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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