Trump claims attack on a dock in Venezuela; US strikes kill two in Pacific
Al Jazeera
US hit a dock in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs, Trump says, as Pentagon carries out another deadly strike.
United States President Donald Trump has claimed an attack on a dock in Venezuela that he said was used to load “boats up with drugs”, marking the first known land strike by US forces in the Latin American country since Washington launched its pressure campaign four months ago.
The announcement on Monday came as the US military said it conducted another strike against an alleged drug boat on the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing at least two people.
Trump first spoke about the strike in Venezuela during a radio interview on Friday, and when asked by reporters on Monday about an explosion in the country, he said the US had struck a facility where boats load up.
“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said as he met in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats, and now, we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement. And that is no longer around.”
Trump declined to say if the US military or the CIA had carried out the strike on the dock, or where it occurred.
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