US jets deployed to the Caribbean in support of Operation Southern Spear / photo via USSOUTHCOM on X
President Trump revealed on a radio show late last week that the US had “knocked out” a drug facility in Venezuela as the campaign against foreign drug cartels and the Maduro regime intensifies.
The strike on Wednesday comes days after Trump told reporters, “Soon we’ll be starting the same program on land. The land is much easier.”
Trump confirmed the strike on a “dock area where they load the boats up with drugs” while speaking to reporters on Monday.
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Trump: There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement, and that is no longer around.
While discussing Venezuelan drug boat strikes on WABC Radio’s “Cats & Crosby” show on Friday, Trump first told co-host John Catsimatidis that the facility was hit two days prior:
Trump: Well, they’re only objecting because I’m the one doing it. If it were anybody else, even another Republican— let’s say you take a weak Republican, they would say “that’s all right.” But because they have Trump derangement syndrome, they’re sick people. There’s something wrong with them. But every time I knock out a boat, we save 25,000 American lives. It’s very simple.
And what’s happening is they’re having a hard time employment wise. They can’t get anybody. And we just knocked out— I don’t know if you read or you saw they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So, we hit them very hard, but drugs are down over 97%. Can you believe it?
US officials reportedly confirmed that the successful strike was launched against a drug facility inside Venezuela.
Per the New York Times:
American officials said that Mr. Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that it was eliminated, but provided no details. Military officials said they had no information to share, and the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.
If Mr. Trump’s suggestion that the United States had struck a site in the region proves accurate, it would be the first known attack on land since he began his military campaign against Venezuela. U.S. officials declined to specify anything about the site the president said was hit, where it was located, how the attack was carried out or what role the facility played in drug trafficking. There has been no public report of an attack from the Venezuelan government or any other authorities in the region.
While some officials called the facility struck a drug production site, it is not clear what role in narcotics trafficking the facility would have played. Venezuela is well known for its role in trafficking drugs, especially cocaine produced in Colombia, but has not been a major producer of narcotics.
Earlier this month, US forces began seizing Venezuelan oil tankers after Trump ordered a full blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela.
The US has also executed at least 29 strikes against drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since September 2.
Last week, US forces took out a “low-profile” vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing one male narco-terrorist. At least 105 narco-terrorists have been killed in these operations.
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