The tension between the United States and Venezuela increased this last night, after the president confirmed that the US armed forces sank in the South Caribbean in three weeks in an attack in which three alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers died.
“All you have to do is look at the load that was scattered throughout the ocean, large cocaine bags everywhere,” the president replied on Monday at the White House when questioned about evidence of the attack against an organized crime boat that was sunk today.
Trump said and that they will take similar actions by land and air.
This is the sinking of a second boat from Venezuela through a kinetic attack orchestrated by the military forces of the US Army that is displaced in international waters, near the South American country.
Three people, who according to Trump were drug traffickers, died during the attack and the president shared a video in which a detainee boat is observed in the middle of the sea and subsequently receives a projectile.
The president acknowledged that the “fishing business will be damaged”, but considered that this is necessary to stop drug flow to the United States. “If I were a fisherman, I would not go fishing,” for suspicions, he said, that they can have drugs in the cellar.
The first attack
On September 2, the United States had made a similar attack in the Caribbean against another boat with eleven crew that were eliminated, Trump said on their social networks.
The Secretary of State, justified the first direct attack against a drug vessel saying that “stopping them is not enough” and the boat was attributed to the organization of the Aragua train.
The United States has significantly increased its military presence in the South Caribbean in response to “drug trafficking from Venezuela”, with the deployment of at least eight warships in the region, including a nuclear rapid attack submarine, with more than 4,500 soldiers.
Venezuela’s response
For his part, the president of Venezuela, said during a press conference that “there is an ongoing military aggression and that, according to international law, Venezuela has the right to respond.”
“Venezuela exercises the legitimate right to defense and we fully exercise it; it is not a tension, it is an aggression on the entire line, a judicial aggression when they criminalize us, it is a political aggression with its daily threatening statements, it is a diplomatic aggression and it is an aggression on the path of a military nature,” Maduro added.
However, he expressed confidence in diplomacy and communication to avoid a “great war” in the region, a warning that came before the first aggression.
Maduro reiterated that the oil nation is in a phase of “uninitated struggle”, but, he warned, if “it was attacked by the American empire”, it would “immediately” the “armed struggle.”
“We would exercise armed actions in the localities, in the regions and in the places where necessary to face the Mercenary Group or the Yankee Group (American) invader,” said the Chavista leader, after confirming that 2.5 million military and militiamen were deployed last Thursday, as part of a defense plan for “Peace and Sovereignty.”
