This is the moment the US Military obliterated drug smugglers, in a daring strike on a narco-terrorist gang. Donald Trump has warned violent drug smugglers there was “more where that came from” just moments after the US military blew up the speed boat.
11 gangsters from the Tren De Aragua drug gang died as the US military dropped a bomb on their boat in the Southern Caribbean. The President blasted the gang and praised his generals saying they had been “so incredible”.
President Trump said: “Over the last few minutes we just shot out a drug carrying boat, a lot of drugs on that boat.”
He warned the gangs there was “more where that came from”, as he laid out the latest action taken to deal with the “drugs pouring into our country”.
Taking to his own platform, Truth Social he wrote that the gang was a “terrorist organisation, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro” the President of Venezuela.
Trump bragged that “no U.S Forces were harmed in the strike” and said that the attack should “serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America” ending the comment with “BEWARE!”.
Joining him in praising the US Military Operation was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who posted online “The US military conducted a lethal strike […] against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organisation.”
A top defence official said that more information on the strike would be made available “at a later time”.
The dramatic footage, shared by the President, showed a small boat being blasted apart in international waters, as it exploded into flames, leaving no survivors.
It is the first attack of its kind on a cartel since Trump let the military carry out strikes earlier this year.
It’s reported that the region is a major exporter of cocaine, however there has not yet been confirmation as to what the speed boat was carrying. In August this year President Trump told the military to send out three war ships, and around 4,000 US Marines to the coast of Venezuela, which led to the nation’s left-wing leader, Maduro, mobilising the militia and claiming Trump wanted to invade.
Trump poured on the heat later in the month by offering a $50 million (£37m) reward to anyone with information that could see Maduro locked up.
This missile strike is the latest development in escalating tensions between the USA and the South American country.
Maduro told reporters on Monday that he was concerned the US was “seeking a rehome change through military threat”.
But Trump’s administration didn’t diffuse tensions, with a source telling the New York Post in America that “Maduro’s reign of terror is ending,” in response to the drug gang strike.
They added: “President Trump’s historic mission to secure the Western Hemisphere is just getting started.”
