The first ground strike.. America announces targeting details "Boat dock" In Venezuela
The US President announced Donald Trump Monday that the United States targeted and destroyed a marina used, according to him, to launch boats through which drugs were smuggled from Nicolas Maduro, whom it accuses of leading a vast drug trafficking network, and announced the imposition of "Complete ban" On sanctioned oil tankers sailing from or heading to Venezuela.
Since September, US forces have carried out about thirty strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean against boats that Washington suspects of being involved in drug smuggling, killing about 107 people.
Central Intelligence Agency
Trump told reporters from his resort in Mar-a-Lago, "There was a big explosion in the marina area where they load boats with drugs. We targeted all the boats, then we targeted the site itself and it no longer existed".
He added "The location was on the coast"He refused to specify whether the operation was military or carried out by the CIA, and he also declined to reveal the location of the strike.
Trump has been threatening for weeks to launch ground strikes. "almost" Against drug cartels in Latin America, but any attack has not yet been confirmed.
Drug storage and loading
According to the network "CNN" And a newspaper "New York Times"The strike was carried out by a drone targeting an isolated landing platform used by a gang "Tren de Aragua" To store drugs and load them into boats with the aim of smuggling them.
The network and the newspaper reported, citing sources familiar with the developments whose identity was not revealed, that there was no one on the site at the time of the strike and that no casualties occurred, and they indicated that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the one that carried out the operation.
No official comment was issued by the Venezuelan government in this regard, and this strike may raise the already high level of tension with President Nicolas Maduro, whom the United States is seeking to force to resign.
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