"If follows a deadly US missile strike on Tuesday on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration insisted was carrying 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, and comments by secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday that such attacks will happen again. In another development on Thursday, the US accused Venezuela of the highly provocative move of buzzing one of its warships in international waters."
"The US has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allowed us to interdict and stop drug boats. And we did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work, he told a press conference after meeting with Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to discuss stronger security ties. What will stop them is when you blow them up. Instead of interdicting it, on the president's orders, we blew it up. And it'll happen again. Maybe it's happening right now."
"Donald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was reported on Friday. The planes will arrive in the US territory next week and will be part of a sustained military campaign in the Latin American region that began with Tuesday's air strike, the news agency said."
Ten F-35 fighter jets will be sent to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean. The deployment follows a deadly US missile strike on a boat the administration said carried 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned similar attacks will happen again. The planes will arrive next week and join a sustained campaign that began with the recent air strike. The US has already deployed at least eight warships and other assets. Two Venezuelan military planes flew close to a US warship, which the Pentagon called highly provocative.
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