WashingtonDonald Trump has announced that the United States has attacked a ship from Venezuela: “We have just shot on a drug -carrying boat,” he said during an appearance at the Oval office. Instants later came the confirmation of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, through a publication on the networks: “Today the U.S. army has carried out a lethal attack in the south of the Caribbean against a drug boat that had set sail from Venezuela and was operated on by a designated organization as a narcoterrorist.” According to the President himself on the Social Truth Network, the attack would have killed eleven.
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“This morning, under my orders, the U.S. military forces conducted a kinetic attack on Narcoterrorists of the Aragua train identified positively in the Southcom’s responsibility area,” Trump wrote, who had linked the criminal band without evidence with the Government of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro. The Republican has specified that the attack has taken place in “international waters” and says it was transported in the USA. “That this will serve as a warning to anyone who is thinking of carrying drugs in the United States of America.”
The action has been confirmed by sources in the Department of Defense who say they have carried out a “precision attack” against a boat operated by an organization designated as “narcoterrorist”, near Venezuela.
The attack is an unprecedented climb in the midst of tensions with Venezuela. At the boundaries of the waters of the Latin American country, the US has a flotile of three guided missile acs destroyers, as well as submarines and planes. All of this justified by an alleged operation to fight drug trafficking. “There is a lot of drug that has been in our country for a long time. And it came from Venezuela. There are many things that come to us from Venezuela,” said Trump on Tuesday, without giving more details. The president had advanced the operation during an event organized at the White House to announce the relocation of the United States Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.
At the beginning of the year, Trump signed an executive order to designate the Narcotáfician cartels as terrorist organizations. The movement made alarms jump because it opened the door to military operations in foreign territory. In early August, the president secretly signed a directive that authorizes Pentagon to use military force against Latin American drug cartels, in accordance with this executive order, which re -ethone. New York Times.
In response to the mobilization of US military naves in the Caribbean, Venezuela deployed troops on his border and called for the enlistment of militiamen and Venezuelans in the event of a hypothetical foreign military raid. On Monday, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, made the following warning: “If Venezuela was assaulted, we would declare ourselves in armed struggle and Republic in arms.”
Concern for a military intervention
“ Venezuela faces the greatest threat that has been seen in our continent in 100 years, ” said Maduro in the press. According to the Pentagon, the three destroyers in front of the Venezuelan waters are the USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson.
Evely week, Karoline Leavitt, a White House Secretariat, said that the United States are ready to use “all the elements of its power” to stop the drug entry flow through their borders and “bring those responsible for justice.”
Concern about a possible military intervention is not exclusive to Venezuela: Mexico also looks carefully at the decisions of the Pentagon and the Trump administration. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the idea when the authorization of the mobilization of US military was known to lidiar with drug trafficking. “The United States will not come to Mexico with its army,” Sheinbaum said in early August. The Mexican President stated that his government had been informed of the executive order, but insisted: “It has nothing to do with the participation of any military force or any institution in our territory. There is no risk that they invade our territory.”
