The Donald Trump Administration secretly authorized the CIA a carry out covert actions in Venezuelaas revealed this Wednesday by the New York Timesciting US officials within the Government.
With this decision, the Republican intensifies the pressure campaign against the regime of Nicolás Madurowhich Washington does not recognize as legitimate and links to drug trafficking networks.
This authorization would allow the CIA carry out lethal operations inside Venezuela and a series of missions in Caribbean waters, says the newspaper, which quotes several senior American officials.
Trump reported this Tuesday that his country’s Army carried out another attack against a ship in the Caribbean, near the coast of Venezuela, and confirmed the death of “six narcoterrorists.”
The Republican’s message is accompanied by a video where you can see how a small boat is hit by a projectile in an explosion that engulfs her in flames.
🇺🇸💥🇻🇪 Fifth US naval attack on the coasts of Venezuela
Donald Trump declared:
The Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic attack against a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) that was conducting drug trafficking in the area of responsibility of the… pic.twitter.com/9SnGNQEVPt
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It is attack joins at least five operations that the United States has carried out since September against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, three of them near Venezuela and another near the Dominican Republic.
On October 5, Trump himself confirmed the sinking of another ship traveling through the Caribbean and again suggested that His country could soon move its anti-drug operations from sea to land.
Two days before, The Pentagon had announced another military attack in the Caribbean against vessels that were supposedly transporting drugs.
The military deployment of the United States in Caribbean waters under the argument of combating drug trafficking has been criticized by the Maduro Government, which considers it a threat of a possible attack against Venezuela.
Trump and several senior officials in his Administration accuse Maduro of being the leader of a drug trafficking networksomething that Caracas denies.