The United States destroyed the alleged Venezuelan boat, killing three

President Donald Trump says the US military has destroyed the alleged Venezuelan Drugs Court traveling in international waters on the road to the United States.

Trump said on Monday that three men were killed in the attack on “drug trafficking cartels.” He did not provide evidence that the boat was carrying drugs.

Shortly before, his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro said Caracas would defend himself against us “aggression”, calling America’s best diplomat Marco Rubio “The Lord of Death and War.”

The tension between the two countries escalated after the United States deployed warships in the Southern Caribbean on what employees said they were drug control operations, carrying out a strike that killed 11 people.

“This morning, on my orders, US military forces conducted a second kinetic strike against a positively identified, extremely violent drug trafficking for drug trafficking and drug terrorists,” Trump said.

“These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels pose a threat to US national security.”

The post also included nearly 30 seconds of video that appeared to show a vessel in a water body that broke out and then on fire.

Rubio earlier on Monday defended the first attack On a boat that is said to carry drugs from VenezuelaWhoever killed all 11 people on board, saying that “what needs to be happening is some of those boats that need to be blown up.”

During an interview with Fox News, US Secretary of State said Maduro was a “direct threat to US national security” because of his alleged involvement in drug trafficking.

Later on Monday, Maduro said relations with the United States were “destroyed by their bombs.”

“We have moved from a period of battered relationships to a completely broken.”

Venezuela’s president said the government would “completely” exercise his “legal right to defend himself”.

Legal experts told the BBC earlier that the fatal blow to the first ship in international waters may have violated the international right to human rights and maritime law.

Asked by a journalist on Sunday if the US will now “start strike on the continental Venezuela,” Trump replied, “We’ll see what happens.”

Speaking to reporters in New Jersey, the president said Venezuela “sends us members of his gang, their drug and drug traders.”

He said the maritime traffic in the Southern Caribbean has significantly reduced “from the first stroke”.

Experts have raised questions about the legality of the attack on September 2 against the alleged drug boat, saying it may have violated international law.

Venezuela replied, flying two days later F-16 fighters over the Navy Navy.

This made Trump warn that all kinds of Venezuelan planes that put “us in a dangerous situation” will be taken down.

After a brief lull, tensions rose again on Saturday, when Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gill accused US forces on board Venezuewell.

Gill said that the ship he described as “small, harmless” fishing boat was seized “illegally and enjoyable” for eight hours.

In a statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry claims that those who have ordered the seizure “are looking for an incident to justify the escalating war in the Caribbean in order to change the regime” in Caracas.

US and many other nations, including the United Kingdom, have not recognized the re -election of Maduro in July 2024, indicating evidence gathered by the opposition with the help of independent observers showing that his rival Edmundo Gonzalez had won the landslide election.

US employees also accused Maduro of a cartel leadership called the Sun Cartel and are Offering a $ 50 million award (£ 37 million) for information leading to its captureS

Maduro denied the allegations and accused the United States of the Imperialist move to deposit him.

He urged the Venezuelans to join the police, a force made up of civilians, which in the past are used mainly to increase the number of political rallies and parades.

Public sector workers say they are pressured to join the police.