The president donald trump reported on Saturday that the United States will return to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, two people who survived an attack on what it called a “submarine loaded with drugs”.
“Two of the terrorists were killed. At least 25,000 Americans would die if this submarine was allowed to make landfall. The two surviving terrorists will be returned to their home countries, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution,” Trump explained on the social network Truth Social.
President Trump noted that US intelligence had confirmed that the vessel “was loaded primarily with fentanyl and other illegal narcotics” and added that no members of US forces were injured in the attack.
It is about the first two arrests made by the United States during the current “armed conflict” against drug trafficking, in which US forces have sunk at least six vessels in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuela, leaving a balance of almost 30 dead.
The attack against the alleged drug submarine took place last Thursdayas reported on Friday by Trump, who assured that the fact of having such a vessel indicated that “it was not an innocent group.”
The deployment of the United States in the Caribbean, which began in August under the justification of combating drug trafficking near the coasts of Venezuela, has caused growing tension between Washington and the government of Nicolás Maduro, which sees the operation as a prelude to a possible attack against the country.
Trump announced on Wednesday that has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations and said it is analyzing the possibility of carrying out ground operations because, in their opinion, they have paralyzed maritime drug trafficking.
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