Trump Confirms US Strike on ‘Big Facility’ Inside Venezuela
President Donald Trump said the US had struck a facility inside Venezuela, a significant escalation in its campaign against alleged drug trafficking operations there.
“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters Monday.
The attack within Venezuela is the first time the Trump administration has announced hitting a target on land after upping pressure on the government of Nicolas Maduro by bombing boats in the region and a blockade to disrupt the country’s oil exports.
Trump said he had spoken to Maduro “pretty recently,” but dismissed the conversation as unproductive.
“Nothing much comes of it,” he said of their phone calls.
Trump was confirming comments he made last week in a radio interview that the US had hit a target the day before Christmas.
“They have a big plant, or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard,” he said Friday.
Trump had warned for weeks that he was ready to expand the military campaign by striking targets on land.
Source : Bloomberg.com
