“We will put an end to those sons of bitches”

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, insisted this Tuesday that “very soon” US attacks against drug trafficking cartels within Venezuelan territory will begin, after the operation against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

“We are going to put an end to those sons of bitches,” he said.

“By land it’s much easier. We know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad guys live. And we’re going to start with that very soon too,” the president told reporters during a meeting with his cabinet at the White House.

In fact, the president already warned last week that his Armed Forces will act “very soon” on the ground against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers and announced to pilots and airlines that they should consider Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety.”

During the meeting, he stated that “any country that traffics drugs to us is subject to attacks.” What’s more, he specified that Colombia is also “susceptible” to being attacked for having cocaine factories.

“Colombia has entire cocaine factories, any country that does that is susceptible to being attacked, not just Venezuela,” he noted.

Operation Southern Spear

An attack on Venezuelan territory would be part of the operation baptized by the Pentagon as Spear of the South and which so far has destroyed around twenty vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific, extrajudicially killing more than 80 alleged drug traffickers.

According to the newspaper The Washington Post, in the first of these attacks, carried out on September 2, a second bombing was carried out, supposedly ordered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to kill two survivors, an action that could be investigated as a war crime.

Asked about this issue, Trump said that he has no information on the matter, that he trusts Hegseth and that he has heard that the admiral in command of the operation, Frank Bradley, “is an extraordinary person.”

Trump also assured that the destruction of boats supposedly loaded with drugs has saved “thousands of lives” in the United States.

For his part, Hegseth said he saw no survivors when monitoring the attack and criticized the press for spreading information that “is not based on the truth.”

Both the White House and the Pentagon have insisted that all attacks are completely legal and have shown confidence in Bradley’s work.

Pete Hegseth has attacked the press for attacking Pentagon commanders, whom he has described as “heroes.” “We will stop any threat,” said the Secretary of War.

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