U.S. forces in the Caribbean fired upon a drug boat from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 2, amid a heightened naval operation near the country.
“We, just over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat,” Trump said during White House press briefing.
The Trump administration has taken several recent steps to slow the flow of drugs northward toward the United States, including designating several Latin American criminal organizations as foreign terrorist groups.
“We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time,” Trump said Tuesday, as he discussed the new high-seas drug bust….