{"id":482984,"date":"2025-09-15T16:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/us-attacks-second-vessel-with-three-alleged-venezuelan-drug-traffickers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:51:30","slug":"us-attacks-second-vessel-with-three-alleged-venezuelan-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/us-attacks-second-vessel-with-three-alleged-venezuelan-drug-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"US attacks second vessel with three alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>United States<\/strong>&nbsp;shot down this Monday a second&nbsp;<strong>boat<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>Caribbean Sea<\/strong>&nbsp;that was allegedly carrying three&nbsp;<strong>Venezuelan drug traffickers<\/strong>, announced the American president,&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n&#8220;This morning, under my orders, the United States Military Forces carried out a SECOND kinetic attack against drug cartels and narcoterrorists identified and extraordinarily violent, in the area of responsibility of the Southern Command,&#8221; the president detailed on the Truth Social platform.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump asserted that the <strong>vessel<\/strong> was in <strong>international waters<\/strong> transporting <strong>drugs<\/strong> and that, during the attack, three men of Venezuelan nationality died, whom he defined as &#8216;<strong>terrorists<\/strong>&#8216;.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe leader added that no members of the&nbsp;<strong>American Armed Forces<\/strong>&nbsp;were&nbsp;<strong>injured<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>operation<\/strong>.\n\n&#8220;ATTENTION! IF YOU <strong>TRANSPORT DRUGS<\/strong> THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!&#8221; he concluded.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Attack on first boat<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>United States<\/strong>&nbsp;shot down a first&nbsp;<strong>boat<\/strong>&nbsp;on September 2nd&nbsp;<strong>September<\/strong>&nbsp;which, according to Washington, was carrying&nbsp;<strong>drugs<\/strong>&nbsp;and eleven alleged members of the&nbsp;<strong>Venezuelan criminal group<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Tren de Aragua<\/strong>, something that the Government of Nicol\u00e1s&nbsp;<strong>Maduro<\/strong>&nbsp;has flatly denied, in addition to condemning the attack.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second attack occurs amidst the&nbsp;<strong>growing confrontation<\/strong>&nbsp;between&nbsp;<strong>United States<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Venezuela<\/strong>&nbsp;following the&nbsp;<strong>military deployment<\/strong>&nbsp;of the United States in the&nbsp;<strong>Caribbean Sea<\/strong>&nbsp;with the argument of combating&nbsp;<strong>drug trafficking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\nThe <strong>Trump Administration<\/strong> accuses <strong>Maduro<\/strong> of leading the so-called <strong>Cartel of the Suns<\/strong>, something the Caracas government denies, and has offered a <strong>reward<\/strong> of <strong>50 million dollars<\/strong> for information leading to the <strong>capture<\/strong> of the Venezuelan president.\n\n<strong>Maduro<\/strong>\u00a0stated this Monday that\u00a0<strong>communications<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>United States<\/strong>\u00a0are &#8220;broken&#8221; in the face of what he considers an &#8220;<strong>aggression<\/strong>&#8221; from the North American country, and added that\u00a0<strong>Venezuela<\/strong>\u00a0is now &#8220;more prepared&#8221; if a &#8220;<strong>armed struggle<\/strong>&#8221; were to occur.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States&nbsp;shot down this Monday a second&nbsp;boat&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Caribbean Sea&nbsp;that was allegedly carrying three&nbsp;Venezuelan drug traffickers, announced the American president,&nbsp;Donald Trump. &#8220;This morning, under my orders, the United States Military Forces carried out a SECOND kinetic attack against drug cartels and narcoterrorists identified and extraordinarily violent, in the area of responsibility of the Southern Command,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40230],"class_list":["post-482984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21E4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/eeuu-ataca-a-presuntos-narcotraficantes-venezolanos-en-mar-caribe-82122577-focus-0-0-896-504.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/eeuu-ataca-a-presuntos-narcotraficantes-venezolanos-en-mar-caribe-82122577-focus-0-0-896-504.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}