Trump hints US will soon begin ground attacks in Venezuela

MADRID, December 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

United States President Donald Trump said the country would begin carrying out ground attacks in Venezuela, although shortly afterward he clarified that these ground operations were directed against “horrible people who are bringing drugs” into the United States and were not required to be on Venezuelan territory.

“And now we’re starting on the ground (the attacks). And on the ground, it’s much easier. And it’s going to start happening,” said the White House tenant, asked about the situation with Venezuela during a press conference in the Oval Office and shortly after, affirming that the ground attacks do not “necessarily have to take place in Venezuela, it’s the people who bring drugs to our country, our objectives.”

Trump maintained that the American government has eliminated drug trafficking “to levels never seen before”, in particular, according to the North American president, it has reduced “96 percent of drugs that arrive by sea”, while assuring that he would not want to be the remaining four percent, in reference to the attacks carried out in the Caribbean against ships supposed to transport drugs and for which he was accused of having committed “extrajudicial assassinations”.

Laughing and joking, he also asked those in the Oval Office, “Do you want to go fishing in this area? Does anyone want to go fishing in this area? I don’t think so.” American bombings against ships have already caused more than 80 deaths.

On the other hand, the President of the United States did not want to reveal what his next actions would be regarding Venezuelan oil, after the seizure of a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude oil off the coast of this Latin American country just two days ago.

Likewise, he criticized Colombia – as he already did when he assured that its president Gustavo Petro would be “next” in the fight against drug trafficking – although he wanted to differentiate it from the Venezuelan situation. “Colombia has at least three cocaine factories. It’s a different country. We’re not happy with that. But we’re putting an end to it,” he said.

“Now we have a strong border. A year and a half ago, millions of people crossed it in droves. Now, no one comes in through our border. And we have a strong country. We have a country that respects it. We’re going to keep it that way. And we’re not going to allow people to kill 300,000 people a year with drugs,” Trump said, likening the situation to a “war.”