{"id":15379,"date":"2025-11-07T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-says-military-struck-alleged-drug-boat-in-caribbean-killing-3-narco-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:20:49","slug":"hegseth-says-military-struck-alleged-drug-boat-in-caribbean-killing-3-narco-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-says-military-struck-alleged-drug-boat-in-caribbean-killing-3-narco-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says military struck alleged drug boat in Caribbean, killing 3 \u2018narco-terrorists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Thursday that the U.S. military took out another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three &ldquo;narco-terrorists.&rdquo;&nbsp; Hegseth said the vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was blown up in international waters. It is unclear which terrorist group the Defense secretary was referring&nbsp;to&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5594557-hegseth-announces-caribbean-boat-strike\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Thursday that the U.S. military took out another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three &ldquo;narco-terrorists.&rdquo;&nbsp; Hegseth said the vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was blown up in international waters. It is unclear which terrorist group the Defense secretary was referring&nbsp;to&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}