The President of the United States, Donald Trump, warned this Thursday (11/27/2025) that the Armed Forces “will begin very soon” to “detain” the “drug traffickers of Venezuela” by land, considering that military operations at sea have already been a success.
“They’ve probably noticed that people don’t want to deliver (drugs) by sea anymore, and we’re going to start stopping them by land. Also, by land it’s easier, but that’s going to start very soon. We warned them to stop sending poison into our country,” Trump said in a Thanksgiving call with the military.
The president, who did not detail what the actions on land will consist of, highlighted from Florida the attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific, where US forces have killed more than 80 people by destroying more than 20 boats supposedly linked to drug trafficking, mostly from Venezuela, since September 1.
Justifies boat bombings
“In recent weeks, you have been working to stop drug traffickers from Venezuela, of which there are many. Of course, there are not many coming by sea anymore,” the president told the Army elements.
The head of state justified the bombings by pointing out that Venezuela’s alleged drug traffickers “are sending their poison to the United States, where they kill thousands of people a year.”
“But we are going to take care of the situation. We are already doing a lot. We have almost stopped it. We have already stopped 85% (of the flow) by sea,” he said.
His statements occur in the midst of the growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, which since November 16 deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest aircraft carrier, in the Caribbean, and on Monday declared the Cartel de los Soles organization as terrorist, which it links to the Venezuelan ruler, Nicolás Maduro.
Still, Trump has insisted before that he has not yet decided to bomb infrastructure in Venezuela or attack Maduro, with whom he “could talk to save many lives,” he said Tuesday, a conversation that would be “welcome, according to Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab.
American B-52H bomber aircraft carried out demonstrations in the Caribbean on Monday, as revealed this Wednesday by the United States Air Force.
mg/ gs (efe, afp, reuters)
