Trump admin to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Ecuador, Colombia

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Trump admin to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Ecuador, Colombia

The Hill
by Filip Timotija
10/18/25

The Trump administration plans to repatriate back to Ecuador and Colombia the two alleged drug traffickers who survived the U.S. military’s recent boat strike in the Caribbean.

President Trump announced on Saturday that the two survivors of the Thursday boat strike by U.S. forces, which killed two other “narcoterrorists,” will be transferred over to their countries of origin for “detention and prosecution.”

It is unclear if Ecuador and Colombia will prosecute the alleged narcoterrorists or if they will be released.

The transfer of the survivors comes after they were detained on Thursday, following the strike, and transferred to a Navy ship where they received medical treatment.

The four alleged drug traffickers were traveling in a semi-submersible that Trump said was heading to the U.S. on a “well-known narcotrafficking transit route” and that the vessel mostly had fentanyl, but also other illegal drugs.

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social. “U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics.” 

Trump said that no U.S. forces were injured in the operation and claimed that 25,000 Americans would have died if the submersible reached the U.S. shore.

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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5562016-trump-administration-repatriate-alleged-drug-traffickers/

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