Around noon on Tuesday, the American president said that “soon” would offer more details about the operation.
Miami, United States. – The president of the United States, Donald Trump, He said Tuesday that American military “shot” against a ship “who transported a cargo of drugs from Venezuela.” The news too It was confirmed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in X
The White House presented the fact as part of its anti -drug offensive. According to The countrythis constitutes the most serious episode in the tension between Washington and Caracas from the return of the Republican to power.
Trump told the press: “In the last minutes we just opened fire against a ship, a ship that transported drugs; [había] A lot of drugs on that ship. “He added:” We have a lot of drugs entering our country, for a long time. And these came from Venezuela. There are many things that come to us from Venezuela. ”
The president said he would offer more details “soon”, once he had finished the meeting in which he was, and stressed that the action “ends[ba] If it happened. ”Trump spoke from the Oval Office, during an act to announce the transfer of the command for the cyberspace from Colorado to Alabama, and explained that he had just received the notification after a“ small informative session ”of the Chief of the General Staff, General Dan Caine.
Rubio, meanwhile, confirmed the operation in X: “The US armed forces have carried out a lethal attack today in the southern Caribbean against a ship of drug trafficking that had sailed from Venezuela and was being managed by an organization designated as a drug trafficking.”
The episode occurs with An American flotilla deployed in international watersto the limit of the Venezuelan territorial sea, within an operation that Washington describes as anti -narcotics. The device includes three aegis destroyers of guided missiles-US Serly, USS Jasson Dunham and Uss Sampson-, in addition to P-8 spying airplanes, armored and attack submarines. The USS San Antonio, USS IWO Jima and USS Fort Lauderdale, also are part of the deployment. According to the Pentagon, the ships will remain in the area for several months.
Trump attributes to Latin American posters the flow of fentanil and other drugs that – he says – feed violence in American cities. It also holds Nicolás Maduro to lead the so -called “Los Soles poster”, a network that would link high Venezuelan positions with Colombian guerrilla groups and organized crime organizations in Mexico.
On August 7, the White House raised 50 million dollars the reward for information that leads to Maduro’s arrest. In addition, at the beginning of the same month the president secretly signed a directive that authorizes the Pentagon to use force against Latin American drug posters designated as terrorist organizations, he revealed The New York Times.
White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, Recently specified that the United States was willing to use “all the elements of its power” to stop the entry of drugs through its borders and “take those responsible to justice.”
