President Donald Trump said Tuesday that US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs from Venezuela and “took it out,” in a potentially significant escalation in the standoff between Caracas and Washington.

The United States accuses President Nicolas Maduro of heading a drug cartel and has deployed warships to the southern Caribbean in what it has billed as a bid to combat trafficking, while the Venezuelan leader has cast the deployment as a threat to the country.

US forces “shot out a boat…, a drug carrying boat, lots of drugs in that boat,” Trump said in the White House, without providing further details on the operation or the circumstances surrounding it.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio meanwhile posted on X that the “US military conducted a lethal strike… against a drug vessel whic

See Full Page