Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States had carried out a strike on a second Venezuelan boat and killed three alleged terrorists he claimed were transporting drugs, expanding his administration’s war against drug cartels and the scope of lethal military force to stop them.
The U.S. president gave few details about the strike, saying in a social media post that the action was on his orders and that it had happened earlier in the morning.
“The strike occurred while these confirmed narco-terrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics headed to the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The strike comes after the operation against the first alleged Venezuelan drug boat earlier this month, which killed 11 people.
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