Washington,.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, responded this Sunday with a “we’ll see what happens” when asked about the possibility of his country carrying out attacks within Venezuelan territory.
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“We don’t like what Venezuela is sending us: neither its drugs nor its gang members. We don’t like it, we don’t like it at all,” the president added. His statements come amid the growing confrontation between both countries, following the deployment of eight U.S. warships and a submarine in the Caribbean Sea, under the argument of combating drug trafficking. Recently, the United States shot down a boat that, according to its authorities, was transporting drugs and eleven alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, something that the government of Nicolás Maduro has flatly denied, in addition to condemning the attack. “What is illegal is that 300 million people died last year from drugs,” Trump responded when questioned about the legality of that military operation. For his part, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López denounced this Sunday that the United States is conducting intelligence flights over the country and accused Washington of trying to justify a “military threat and intervention plan” to “displace” Maduro from power. The Venezuelan Executive assured on Saturday that a U.S. destroyer “deployed eighteen personnel with long weapons” and seized a vessel on Friday, where “nine humble fishermen” were traveling in Venezuela’s Exclusive Economic Zone. In this context, the Caracas government ordered the mobilization of ships, the enlistment of millions of militiamen, and a “special reinforcement” of the military presence in five coastal regions of the country.
