The United States is strongly considering operations on land in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
“We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that, but we’re going to stop them by land also,” Trump told reporters during a press conference.
Over the past several months, the administration has conducted missile strikes on what they claim are Venezuelan “speed boats” being used to traffic narcotics to the United States. Twenty-seven people have been killed, according to the administration. Some critics, including independent United Nations experts, have condemned the killings as extrajudicial.