Hegseth warns

The United States will maintain the assets positioned in the Caribbean and attack any person “traffic in those waters that we know is a designated narco terrorist,” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said that the United States army had attacked and destroyed a drug container in the region.

Trump said on Tuesday that the United States had He hit the boat In international waters after he had separated from Venezuela. Later, the president said in Truth Social that 11 people were killed in the strike. He said the attack attacked members of Aragua trainan organized crime group based in Venezuela that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration.

Trump also published a video that seemed to show a military strike that deletes a small boat in the open sea.

Hegseth told “News & Friends” Wednesday morning that he saw the live strike. He said that the video “was definitely not artificial intelligence,” as the Minister of Communications of Venezuela, Freddy Ñáñez, said in a publication on social networks. Hegesh said he could not explain how the operation had been carried out, but said it was an “precision.”

“We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented, and that was a Aragua train … trying to poison our country with illicit drugs,” said Hegseth.

Hegesh did not say how the government identified the boat or those that delete it. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told journalists on Tuesday that he believed that drugs were heading towards Trinidad and Tobago or another country in the Caribbean. Kamla Persad-Bissssar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, praised the strike in a statement issued Tuesday night, News reported.

Hegesh said Wednesday that the strike shows that “President Trump is willing to offend in a way that others have not been” when it comes to drug traffickers.

“You want to deal with drug trafficking, it’s a new day,” said the Secretary of Defense. “It is a different day, so those 11 drug traffickers are no longer with us, sending a very clear sign that this is an activity that the United States will not tolerate in our hemisphere.”

Hegseth said that assets will remain in the region, and that more blows can be published.

“This is a mortal and would be for us and will not stop with this strike,” he said. “Any other person who treats those waters we know is a designated narcoterrorist will face the same destination.”

Mr. Trump directed to the army To attack drug posters in Latin America last month. In August, the United States said the Navy would increase its presence near Venezuela and deploy multiple warships as part of an anti -drug cartel mission. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called the movement An “extravagant threat, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody.” Maduro responded deploying War ships and drones to the coast of Venezuela.

The United States has not indicated that it plans to attack Venezuela directly. When News asked Hegseth on Wednesday about the possibility of a regime change in the country, he said it was a “presidential decision.” The Trump administration has accused the government of Maduro to work with drug cartels and groups such as Aragua train to bring illegal substances to the United States.

A Federal Court of the United States accused Maduro of drug trafficking and drug trafficking in 2020, accusations that Maduro has denied. The United States is offering $ 50 million Reward for Maduro’s arrest.

“What we have, there in the Caribbean, is a clear demonstration of military power,” Hegseth said in the interview “News & Friends.” “President Trump has shown whether it is the southwest of the border, the hutíes, the midnight hammer (operation) in Iran, the precise power could affect and remodel the dynamics throughout the world and in the region. Nicolas Maduro, as it considers whether to be a narco traffic light, has decisions to make.”

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• Donald Trump
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• Trump administration
• Pete Hegseth