U.S. President Donald Trump assured on Wednesday that Venezuela created a “tremendous problem” for the United States in relation to drug trafficking and irregular immigration, and added: “we are not going to allow it anymore”, and the alleged drug traffickers who killed yesterday “are not going to do it again”.
“Venezuela has acted very badly, both on the drug issue and for sending some of the worst criminals in the world to our country. They empty their prisons in Venezuela and send them to the United States. And that is part of the problem we have. We’re getting rid of them, we’re getting rid of them quickly, but they’ve caused a tremendous problem,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The President was asked about the “lethal attack” that US forces carried out in the waters of the Caribbean Sea against a boat allegedly belonging to the criminal organization Tren de Aragua in which eleven “narcoterrorists” died.
“On the boat there were huge amounts of drugs. We have recordings of them talking. It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people, and everybody understands that perfectly well,” Trump said of the attacked vessel.
“They won’t do it again. And I think a lot of other people won’t do it (transporting drugs) either. When they see that video, they’re going to say, ‘We better not do this,'” the U.S. president continued.
“We have to protect our country, and we’re going to do it. Venezuela is a very bad actor,” Trump assured.
“We are not going to tolerate it anymore. Venezuela is one of the worst actors in the whole group, and we have a bad enough group of actors already,” he added.
Trump claimed Tuesday that the vessel he said was carrying drugs had been shot down and shared a video from the U.S. Army’s Southern Command showing them attacking the vessel, a small boat.
The U.S. is carrying out an unprecedented military deployment in the Caribbean Sea to combat drug trafficking, something that is normally addressed through intelligence cooperation with local authorities or non-lethal Coast Guard intervention, reported EFE.
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