The United States Army attacks the boat with drugs from Venezuela, says Rubio

Washington -The United States Army hit a boat that led to drugs from Venezuela, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while tensions increased between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government.

President Trump announced the strike during a Tuesday afternoon not related Oval office eventsaying that the army had “triggered” the boat “moments.” He said his team had been informed about the strike by General Dan Caine, president of the Jefications of the Joint General Staff.

Later, the president said in Truth Social Aragua trainan organized crime group based in Venezuela that the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. He published a video that seemed to show a military strike against a small boat.

“Please let this serve as a warning to anyone who is thinking of bringing drugs to the United States of America. Be careful!” The president wrote about Truth Social.

Rubio published in X that the military carried out a “lethal attack” in the South Caribbean Sea. He said that the “drug container” had abandoned Venezuela and “was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.” Later, Rubio told journalists that he believed that drugs that were supposedly taken in the boat were probably headed for Trinidad and Tobago or “some other country in the Caribbean.” A senior defense official also said that the United States had carried out a “precision strike” against the ship.

The strike came after the United States Confirmed last month That the Navy would boost its presence near Venezuela, deploying three warships to the waters of the South American country as part of an anti -drug cartel mission. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called the ships an “extravagant threat, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody” and military forces deployed to the coast of the country, promising to defend itself from any possible American attack.

The United States has not indicated that it plans to attack the Government of Venezuela.

The Trump administration has accused the government of Maduro -A American enemy for a long time-of working with drug cartels and groups such as Aragua’s train to traffic narcotics to the United States, and leading a drug group based in Venezuela called Los Soles Cartel. Maduro was accused of drug narcorism and trafficking in the Federal Court of the United States in 2020. Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi Doubled the reward for the arrest of Maduro at $ 50 million.

Maduro has denied accusations. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil described the “pathetic” Bondi movement and a “raw political propaganda operation.”

Mr. Trump directed to the army To attack drug posters in Latin America last month, News themezone previously reported.