US strike on 'drug boat': Venezuela's anger vs. Trinidad's praise

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States had carried out a military strike in the South Caribbean against a drug-bearing vessel operating by the Tren de Aragua gang of Venezuela. According to Trump, the rare operation in the Americas killed 11 people and marked a sharp escalation in the anti-Narcotics campaign in Washington. In a post about Truth Social, Trump said: “The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters carrying illegal narcotics, on their way to the United States. No US forces were harmed in this strike. Let it serve as a knowledge as someone even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States.” The president also shared a black-and-white video clip of a speedboat that broke out in flames, although it was not clear enough to confirm the presence of 11 people or drug freight. US Defense Secretary: “A Very Clear Message”, Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary, said the strike sent a direct warning to Cartels about the hemisphere. “You want to try to have drugs? It’s a new day. It’s another day. And so the 11 drug dealers are no longer with us, and send a very clear sign that it is an activity that the United States will not tolerate in our hemisphere,” Hegseth said at Fox News. He added that US naval and air assets in the region would continue such missions and warned that “someone else who trades in the waters we know is a designated Narco terrorist will face the same fate.” Venezuela accuses us of ‘imperialist threats’ in Caracas, President Nicolás Maduro has exposed the strike as part of Washington’s alleged attempt to utilize Venezuela’s great oil and gas resources. Maduro, as he walked through his childhood through his childhood, said: “In the face of imperialist threats, God says (is) with us … from the Caracas neighborhoods, I say you, there will be peace in Venezuela, with sovereignty.” State television described Maduro during his public appearance as “Bad in Patriotic Love”, while officials accused the US of building a false narrative of drug trafficking to destabilize the government. Trinidad and Tobago, on the other hand, welcome strike, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar praised the US strike and called it a blow to the cartel that fueled violence in her country. “I, along with most of the country, are glad that the US naval deployment is successful in their mission. The pain and suffering that the cartels have inflicted on our country is great. I have no sympathy for traffickers; The US military must kill them all violently, “she said in a statement. Persad-Bissessar argued that the reduction of the flow of drugs, guns and human trafficking would reduce violence in the Caribbean: ‘Our country has been destroyed by bloody violence and addiction due to the greed of the cartels. The massacre of our people is fueled by evil carteleters. ‘ Escalizing regional tension The operation comes as US naval forces expand their presence of Venezuela, with eight fleet ships deployed in the Caribbean and Pacific as part of counter-Narcotics missions. While Washington insisted that the strike targeted, Tren de Aragua, which he appointed a terrorist organization, remains questions about the evidence that the 11 who died directly with the gang, or to Venezuelan President Maduro, who, according to Trump, controlled the group, contradicted a claim by US intelligence judgments. With Venezuela mobilizing troops along his coast and allies in the Caribbean, the strike runs the risk of further ending Venezuela relations while reforming local security dynamics.