Trump broadcasts the sinking of a second ship out of the Venezuelan coasts which he accuses of drug trafficking | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump introduced Monday with a publish on his social community, Truth that, following his orders, “the United States military forces carried out a second kinetic attack against drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorist, identified safely and extraordinarily violently, in the area of responsibility of the Southern Command.” In the operation, the president provides in a message stuffed with emphatic capital letters, three males died.
According to Trump, the assault occurred whereas “these Venezuelan drug traffments” have been in worldwide waters “transporting illegal narcotics bound for the United States.” His administration considers that “these cartels” signify a risk to “national security, foreign policy and the vital interests of the United States.”
The president additionally states that “no member” of his “armed forces was injured.” And launches a warning: it is going to hunt those that transport medicine that “kill Americans.” “They have done it,” he writes, “for decades, killing millions of American citizens.” “Not anymore,” says the Republican president.
Trump’s announcement arrives nearly two weeks after a primary army assault in opposition to a Venezuelan vessel suspicious of loading medicine. The little that’s identified about that operation has generated a debate about its legality. A bunch of senators of each paristers has demanded official explanations in a letter despatched to Trump, whereas human rights defenders denounce that “this administration is normalizing extrajudicial executions.” Then, the deceased have been 11.
That assault occurred on September 2. Then, the announcement was made by Trump whereas speaking to the reporters within the White House. He additionally assured, as he has executed on Monday, that he had certainly recognized the occupants of the boat as drug traffickers of the Train of Aragua group. They headed, he mentioned, to the United States. The subsequent day he added that communications that confirmed it had been intercepted, though these haven’t been made public.
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