US Naval Group Strikes Venezuelan Drug Boat, Killing 11

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Trump says US military killed 11 members of Tren de Aragua in international waters off Venezuela
In a post on his social network on Tuesday, Donald Trump wrote that the US military killed 11 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a strike on a boat in international waters.

The post was illustrated by what appeared to be video of the strike, marked “unclassified”, which was quickly picked up and broadcast by the Colombian news network Noticias Caracol.

Trump’s post described the gang members as “terrorists” who were “transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States” at the time. He offered no evidence for that claim.

The president also described the gang as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro”, the president of Venezuela.

Although the Trump administration invoked the claim that Tren de Aragua is directed by Venezuela’s government to justify its use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport men it claims were members of the gang to a high-security prison in El Salvador earlier this year, the New York Times reported in March that a US intelligence community assessment concluded that the gang, Tren de Aragua, is not controlled by Maduro’s government.

 

[Starmix]

I salute the US forces for having destroyed the ship carrying the illegal substance from Venezuela to the USA. Go MAGA rules!