The conflict between the United States and Venezuela is increasing: the United States has an allegedly with Drugs Loaded ship attacked and, according to President Donald Trump, killed three people from Venezuela. The victims are “three male terrorists” who were on their way to the USA and were met in international waters, the Republican wrote on his Truth Social.
With the article, the US President also shared a 27 second video that shows how a boat is attacked. The attack took place in the morning on his command, Trump wrote. US forces were not violated.
Donald Trump to drug cartels: “Hunt you!”
“These extremely violent drug cartels are a threat to national security, foreign policy and essential interests of the United States,” emphasized the US President-and added a threat completely written in capital letters: “Be warned-if you transport drugs that can kill Americans, we will hunt them!” Illegal activities of this cartels had cost life for the United States and millions of Americans for decades. So it is over.
According to Trump, US forces had killed eleven people in a similar incident. Venezuela then accused Washington “executions”. In this case too, Trump wrote that the boat should have been brought to the USA from Venezuela. The US State Department, on the other hand, initially said that the drug delivery was probably on the way to Trinidad and Tobago or to another Caribbean country.
It was also unclear what a legal basis the United States acted – this question also arises now. Unlike the US attack about two weeks ago, Trump did not specifically mentioned the Venezuelan drug gang tren de Aragua. His government classifies the group as a foreign terrorist organization. The most powerful gang of Venezuela is involved in drug smuggling, protection, illegal mining and the smuggling of migrants. Finally, the Tren de Aragua also expanded its zone of influence to other countries in Latin America and the USA.
Tense situation between the USA and Venezuela
The United States sent warships to the Caribbean in August and justified this with the fight against drug cartels. Most recently, they also moved fighter jets to the outdoor area of Puerto Rico after Venezuela threatened with an invasion.
The Trump government accuses Maduro of leading a drug cartel and flooding the USA with intoxicants. The left -wing Maduro sees “the biggest threat” for Latin America in the military threats of the United States for a hundred years. Maduro accused the US government of actually targeting the mineral resources of the South American country.
In addition, the US government doubled the reward for information that leads to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to up to $ 50 million (around $ 43 million).
Note: This article has been updated and further information was added.
