Eleven members of the Caracas-linked terror group Tren de Aragua were killed while transporting drugs across the Caribbean Sea Tuesday, a blow President Trump said he hoped would serve as a deterrent.
Tuesday’s lethal strike by US forces on Venezuelan narco-terrorists may not have been the last, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warning Wednesday that President Trump is “willing to go on the offense” to knock out dangerous cartels.
“We’re not going to allow this kind of activity. You’re poisoning our people,” Hegseth told “Fox & Friends.”
“We’ve got incredible assets, and they are gathering in the region,” he added. “And so you want to try to traffic drugs, it’s a new day — it’s a different day … this is an activity the United States is not going to tolerate in our hemisphere.”
Eleven members of the Caracas-linked terror group Tren de Aragua were killed while transporting drugs across the Caribbean Sea Tuesday, a blow President Trump said he hoped would serve as a deterrent.
“On the boat, you had massive amounts of drugs,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “We have tapes of them speaking. It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people and everybody fully understands that. In fact, you see it, you see the bags of drugs all over the boat.
“And they were hit. Obviously they won’t be doing it again, and I think a lot of other people won’t be doing it again.
