00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says 11 narco-terrorists were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
00:08In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the U.S. military conducted a kinetic strike on the boat operated by the Venezuelan trendy Aragua gang.
00:18Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office, the U.S. president said this is the latest in a continuous fight his administration is leading to combat the flow of narcotics into the U.S.
00:28We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat.
00:39We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time.
00:43And we just, these came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela.
00:48A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela, so we took it out.
00:51Trump shared a video of the strike along with his post, which showed a speedboat carrying numerous people burst into flames after the strike.
01:01Venezuela's communications minister commented on the video posted by Trump, citing irregularities and calling it AI-generated.
01:09The escalation comes after Trump intensified U.S. presence in the Caribbean to address the threat posed by drug cartels.
01:15His deployment of several naval battleships prompted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to deploy soldiers on the coast and urged the public to enlist in civilian militias.
01:26Trump accuses Maduro of leading the trendy Aragua gang, a claim which contradicts a U.S. intelligence assessment, which found no credible links between the two.
01:35Caracas, meanwhile, accuses Washington of attempting to orchestrate a regime change in seek of the country's riches, which possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves.
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