Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper , who served during President Donald Trump’s first term, does not believe the military is the “best tool” to stop drug trafficking in response to the current United States strategy of blowing up these vessels.

The Trump administration has taken a more aggressive stance toward Venezuela and its leader, Nicolas Maduro, during the first year of his second term. The whole-of-government strategy includes the Department of Justice doubling the reward for information that leads to his arrest, the largest military buildup in the western hemisphere in decades, and lethal kinetic strikes on purported drug smuggling vessels.

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