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The top two leaders of the US military will visit the country. Puerto Rico on Monday to meet with military personnel and express gratitude for their work supporting missions in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Pentagon officials announced the visit in a memo on Sunday, saying the trip would include meetings with military personnel stationed in Puerto Rico and sailors serving in the Caribbean.
“Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Cain and SEAC David L. Isom will visit Puerto Rico on November 24, 2025 for the second time to engage with military personnel and thank them for their outstanding support of regional missions,” the media release said. “They will also visit and thank the sailors serving at sea for their dedicated and unwavering service in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility.”
Kane and the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth It was the first visit in September when they stopped on behalf of the Trump administration to show support for troop training on the island.
Hegseth addresses the formation of U.S. troops at Muñiz Air Base in Carolina on Sept. 8, 2025, amid an expanding military buildup in the Caribbean. (Photo: Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon)
The meeting took place in Muñiz Air Base in Carolina. General Arthur Garfer and other high-ranking military leaders.
Hegseth spoke to nearly 300 soldiers at the base, thanking them and calling them “American warriors.” The Minister of War also confirmed that those serving in the Armed Forces will be the best equipped and trained in the world.
The latest visit comes amid rising tensions in the Caribbean as The US military is expanding its naval presence near VenezuelaIt's part of President Donald Trump's efforts to cut off drug flows from Latin America.
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Earlier this month, Hegseth announced the official launch Operation Southern Spearmission targeting narco-terrorist networks throughout Latin America.
Hegseth then said on X that US Southern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Lance will lead the mission to defend the homeland and dismantle narco-terrorism networks throughout the Western Hemisphere.
“This mission protects our homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our hemisphere and protects our homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Hegseth said.
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Hegseth said the ship was carrying drugs. (War Department)
Since early September, US military forces have carried out numerous deadly operations. strikes on drug trafficking vessels Terrorist organizations operated in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific, destroying dozens of ships associated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the Colombian Ejercito de Liberation Nacional. The attacks killed some 82 narco-terrorism suspects, with three surviving.
The campaign began on September 2 with a strike that killed 11 alleged Tren de Aragua members, and continued in October and November with a series of targeted operations that killed dozens more along known trafficking routes.
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U.S. forces attacked submarines, fishing boats and high-speed vessels, including one vessel linked to the ELN, which drew criticism from Colombia's president after three people were killed.
Several strikes occurred near the coast of Venezuela, and others occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where the most recent operations have been concentrated.
