During the speech that the president of the United States Donald Trump He spoke at the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), referred to the fight against drug cartels, an issue that has covered much of his agenda during his administration.
The president recalled the recent Boats attacks from Venezuela drug loaded.
“From what they see, and they see it to happen before their eyes. Let’s say it, people no longer like to transport large drug loads in ships. There are not many ships that sail through sea near Venezuela. They no longer want to travel so fast,” Trump said in his speech.
“We practically stop the entry of drugs to our country by sea. We call them aquatic drugs. They kill hundreds of thousands of people … Each ship we sink transports drugs that would kill more than 25,000 Americans. We will not allow that to happen, ”he added.
Regarding Los Soles Cartelto which the US recently appointed as a terrorist organization and Afroed that it is operated by Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump indicated: “We have recently begun to use the supreme power of the United States armed forces to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and traffic networks led by Nicolás Maduro, and every terrorist thug that smuggled to the United States. We warn them that we will eliminate them completely. That is what we are doing. ”
The attacks
At the beginning of September, the president said that the US Army made a “lethal attack” in the Caribbean against a boat that transported drugs, which, he said, had left Venezuela and was operated by the criminal group of Aragua.
Weeks later he announced that he ordered another attack against a ship in international waters from the Caribbean that “trafficked with illicit narcotics.”
“Following my orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic attack against a ship affiliated with a designated terrorist organization that performs drug trafficking in the area of responsibility of the southern command of the USA. UU.”, Trump said in a publication in Truth Social.
From his return to the White House, Trump promoted Congress to declare cartels as terrorist groups Because they are considered as a “threat to national security, foreign policy and vital interests of the United States”, so he reiterated that his government “will hunt those who transport drugs that kill Americans” and clarified that “they have done it for decades. But no longer.”
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