“If they put us in a dangerous position, they will be shot down,” Donald Trump said in the Oval Office, this Friday.
Miami, United States. – The president of the United States, Donald Trump, warned this Friday that Venezuelan aircraft “will be demolished” if they place US ships in “a dangerous position” while operating in international waters close to Venezuela, according to The report of The country.
“If they put us in a dangerous position, they will be shot down,” he said in the Oval Office. And he added: “If they fly in a dangerous position, I will say [a los mandos a bordo] that can make the decision they believe convenient ”, during a question and answer session with the press in the framework of the firm of executive orders.
The warning followed a complaint of the Pentagon, which reported that two Venezuelan F-16 aggressively overwhelmed an American ship in what he described as “a demonstration of strength.” According to the Department of Defense, the maneuver sought to interfere in the operations to fight the drug trafficking of The US flotilla deployed in the Caribbean since mid -August.
The allegedly harassed ship was identified as the USS Jasson Dunham, one of the three aegis guided lunch destroyers that make up the flotilla.
The new incident was known days after Trump will announce an attack in international waters against a Venezuelan boat That, he said, he transported drugs. The boat exploded and died 11 people, to whom the president and his administration accused of belonging to the criminal organization of Aragua.
Trump rejected that he is looking for a regime change in Venezuela, in response to the accusations of the ruler Nicolás Maduro. “We are not talking about that. We talked about the fact that they had elections that were very strange, to put it gently,” he said.
Since his return to the White House, Washington’s pressure on Nicolás Maduro has intensified, with an increasing emphasis on linking the leader with drug trafficking. Last month, the US government increased to 50 million dollars the reward for information that leads to the capture of Maduro, whom he accuses of leading the alleged poster of the Suns.
In that line, Stephen Miller, deputy chief of Cabinet and Trump’s political advisor, reiterated the accusations against Caracas. “What Venezuela is directing is not a government: it is a drug sign. A drug traffickers’ organization,” he said to journalists in front of the west wing of the White House.
