US President Donald Trump confirmed this on Tuesday US attacks will begin “very soon” Against drug trafficking gangs within Venezuelan territory, after the operation against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
“It’s much easier on land. We know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad guys live. “We will start doing that very soon.” The president told the press during a meeting with his cabinet at the White House. “We will expel these sons of bitches,” he added.
The president already warned last week that his armed forces They will act “very soon” on Earth against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers and announced to pilots and airlines that they had to consider Venezuelan airspace “completely closed.”
The president also stressed that any country that smuggles drugs into the United States “is subject to attacks.” In fact, he mentioned that Colombia is also vulnerable to attack Because of the cocaine factories in the country. “Colombia has entire cocaine factories, and any country that does that is vulnerable to attack, not just Venezuela,” he added.
The attack on Venezuelan territory will be part of the operation that the Pentagon called “Operation.” Southern Spear So far, it has destroyed about twenty ships in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing more than 80 alleged drug traffickers extrajudicially.
According to the newspaper The Washington PostIn the first of these attacks, carried out on September 2, A second bombing was carried out Defense Minister Pete Hegseth allegedly ordered the killing of two survivors, an act that could be investigated as a war crime.
In response to a question about this matter, Trump said that he had no information in this regard, that he trusted Hegseth, and that he had heard that the admiral in charge of the operation, Frank Bradley, was “an extraordinary person.” Trump also confirmed the destruction of boats supposedly loaded with drugs He saved “thousands of lives” in the United States.
For his part, Hegseth stated that he did not see any survivors while observing the attack and criticized the press for publishing information that was “not based on truth.” Both the White House and the Pentagon insisted on this All attacks are completely legal They showed their confidence in Bradley’s work.