Trump ordered the military to fly to suspicion of drugs instead of intercepting him, says Rubio

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Wednesday that the United States will continue to exploit alleged drug ships instead of simply intercepting them, citing the orders of President Donald Trump.

Speaking to journalists in Mexico City, Rubio said that Trump called on the military to exploit a boat that US officials suspected that he had illegal drugs from Venezuela to the United States, renouncing the option to simply stop the boat.

“Instead of interconnecting it, according to the president’s orders, we explode it, and it will happen again. Maybe it is happening at this time,” Rubio told journalists on Wednesday in Mexico City a day after Trump revealed the strike, which marks a great escalation in the crusade of his administration against drug trafficking.

Stop boats and capture smugglers is ineffective, Rubio continued.

“The United States has a long intelligence, for many, many years, which allows us to interdict and stop drug boats,” he said. “We did that, and it doesn’t work.”

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“What will stop them is when you explode them, when you get rid of them,” he continued.

When asked if the army gave a warning to the boat, Rubio replied: “The president has the right to eliminate immediate threats to the United States. This president is not a talkative, he is a maker.”

The strike killed 11 people.

Trump made similar comments on an early Wednesday when asked why he didn’t have intercepted ships.

“There were a lot of drugs in our country to kill many people, and everyone fully understands that,” Trump said in the White House. “Obviously, they won’t do it again. And I think many other people will not do it again. When they look at that tape, they will say: ‘Let’s not do this.'”

Vice President JD Vance also told reporters on Wednesday that people in the boat were “literal terrorists” who tried to attract “mortal drugs.”

However, experts told New York Times that Venezuela plays little or no role in the fentanyl trade. This medicine occurs almost exclusively in Mexico using chemicals imported from China.

The strike arrived in the middle of the construction of a great presence of the Navy in the waters near Venezuela. The country’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, who supervises a narcotics poster, said Monday that he constituted “the greatest threat that our continent has seen in the last 100 years.”