The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened more strikes against narco-traffickers in the Caribbean Sea after targeting a boat allegedly laden with drugs from Venezuela, killing 11 people, even as questions arise about the legality of the move and whether it was an unnecessary act of aggression.
"It won’t stop with just this strike,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview with Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning. "We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew exactly what they were doing and we knew exactly who they represented.”
The move marked a major escalation in Trump’s crackdown on narcotics traffickers following the deployment of several U.S. Navy vessels off the Venezuelan coast in recent weeks. The administration has also offered a $50 million bounty for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose government it accused of links with the drug-running groups.
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