Trump announces that the American soldiers shot a venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean

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President Donald Trump shared a dramatic video on Tuesday from an American military strike that exploded a Venezuelan’s drug boat in the South of the Caribbean, leaving almost a dozen of Aragua (ADD) narco-terrorists.
“In the last minutes, (we) literally shot a boat, a boat carrying drugs,” Trump said at a press conference at the Oval Office. “Many drugs in this boat. And you will see that, and you will read on this subject. It happened a few moments ago.”
The president then shared a video of the strike on Truth Social, confirming that the explosion occurred in the area of responsibility of Southcom, while the terrorists were in international waters carrying illegal narcotics to the United States
“The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in combat,” wrote Trump in the post. “None of the American forces has been injured in this strike. Please let it be used as notice to anyone even thinking drugs in the United States of America. Please. Thank you for your attention to this case !!!!!!!!!!”

Video sequences showed the ship shortly before destroying it. (@Realdonaldtrump via social social)
Maduro claims that the United States was looking for a “regime change by military threat” in the middle of the Caribbean accumulation
Representative Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., Added that the ship belonged to the Suns cartel.
“It’s going to swim,” wrote Gimenez in a post X. “We continue.”
Before his departure for Mexico City, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told journalists that cocaine and fentanyl shipped from Venezuela often found themselves in Puerto Rico and then went to the United States
“The president was very clear that he will use the full power of America and the full power of the United States to undertake and eradicate these drug cartels, no matter where they operate and no matter how long they were able to act with impunity,” said Rubio. “These days are over.”

President Donald Trump speaks in the oval office of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, DC, while senator Katie Britt, R-Ala., Listen. At the press conference, Trump announced that the US military had “killed” a Venezuela drug boat in the South of the Caribbean. (AP photo / Mark Schiefelbein)
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Trump said many drug boats left Venezuela, saying that terrorists act under the control of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“ADD is an designated foreign terrorist organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sexual traffic and acts of violence and terror across the United States and the Western hemisphere,” he wrote in the Post.

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has not yet commented on the strike. (AP photo / Ariana Cubillos)
Maduro has not yet commented on the strike.
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Emily Sacia de Fox News contributed to this report.