(Washington) Donald Trump said on Tuesday that American forces had shot a “boat carrying drugs” which had just left Venezuela, when the United States has just operated a military deployment in the Caribbean denounced by Caracas.
Washington recently announced the sending of several war buildings to the Caribbean on the grounds of fighting international drug trafficking, the American president accusing his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, of leading a drug trafficking network.
The American army “shot a boat (…), a boat carrying drugs, a lot of drugs,” said Donald Trump during a press point in the White House.
This intervention was carried out “in the south of the Caribbean” and targeted a ship “which had left Venezuela”, said on X the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio.
Nicolás Maduro denounced on Monday the “threat” of “eight ships” and an American submarine which “targets Venezuela”.
He even hovered the threat of an American landing and a desire for “regime change”.
Venezuela is ready for the “armed struggle for the defense of the national territory”, he assured, although the United States has never publicly threatened to invade its country.
