The US armed forces hit a “boat that transported drugs” that Venezuela had just left, killing 11 “narcoterrorist,” said Donald Trump on Tuesday, September 2, while the United States had a military deployment in the Caribbean denounced by Caracas.
Washington has deployed seven war buildings in the Caribbean on the grounds to combat international drug trafficking, the US president accusing his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro to direct a drug trafficking network.
“According to my orders, the US military forces led a clearly identified narco -terrorist bombing of the Aragua train,” Donald Trump said in his social network of truth, in reference to an important gang of Venezuela.
The shot took place while the boat was “in international waters, transporting illegal narcotics for the United States,” he added. “The strike killed 11 terrorists.”
The US president accompanied his message with a video that shows a small ship hit by a strong explosion.
Drug posters “eradicate”
The Aragua train is a Venezuelan criminal organization present in several countries. Donald Trump appointed him in February, as well as other groups related to drug trafficking, as a terrorist organization.
For his part, the head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio clarified that this operation had been carried out “in the southern of the Caribbean” and had addressed a ship “that had left Venezuela.”
Seven American buildings, including three amphibious assault ships, are present in the Caribbean, and another in the Pacific, as part of the fight against drug trafficking, said an American military official.
The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, estimated this Tuesday night that this American deployment really intended to “intimidate people and try to overthrow governments.”
In Miami, before going to Mexico, Marco Rubio expressed journalists from Donald Trump’s determination to use “all power” in the United States to “eradicate” drug cartels.
“The moment when one could act with impunity and be happy to destroy a device or understand a small medication in a boat is over,” he insisted on this fervent detractor of Nicolás Maduro, and the most general leaders in Latin America.
However, the Secretary of State refrained from threatening the Venezuelan president, of which Washington has put leadership, new measures that directly attack him. Questioned by journalists about a possible operation against Nicolas Maduro on Venezuelan soil, Marco Rubio was content to respond: “It is an operation to combat drug trafficking.”
Venezuela ready for “armed struggle”
On the Venezuelan side, the Minister of Communication and Information attacked the video transmitted by Donald Trump, created according to him from scratch.
“Rubio continues to lying to its president (…) now gives him a video generated by AI (artificial intelligence, editor’s note)”, “He must stop encouraging war,” Freddy Ñañez said in his telegram account.
Nicolas Maduro denounced on Monday the “threat” of “eight ships” and an American submarine that “points to Venezuela.” He even floated the threat of an American landing and a desire for “regime change.”
Venezuela is ready for “armed struggle for the defense of the national territory,” he said, although the United States has never publicly threatened to invade his country.
The Trump government presents the fight against drug trafficking as one of its great battle horses, accusing Venezuelan power to lead a large network. Recently, the US authorities even brought the bonus to $ 50 million for any element to bring to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro.
Source: BFM TV
