US President Donald Trump warned Thursday that the armed forces “will begin very soon” to “arrest” Venezuelan drug smugglers by land, considering that the military operations at sea have been successful. “It’s easier overland. So stop sending poison into our country.” Since last September 2, as part of the so-called Operation Southern Spear, Washington has launched attacks against at least 21 ships and killed at least 83 people, most of them in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and near the Venezuelan coast.
“You may have noticed that people don’t want to transport (drugs) by sea, and we will start preventing them by land as well,” Trump explained in a virtual meeting with the US military.