A US official told Reuters that two F-16 fighter fighters on the American Navy destroyed on Thursday, followed by a strict US warning to Venezuela from interfering in intensive US military operations in the Caribbean.
“Today, two military planes belonging to the Maduro regime near the American Navy ship in international waters,” said in a statement, and the statement described what happened as a “very provocative step.”
“We advise the gang that runs Venezuela strongly not to make any additional effort to obstruct, deter or interfere in drug control and combating terrorism carried out by the US military,” he added.
This incident, which the Pentagon said occurred in international waters, increases the tension between the two sides just two days after an American raid that killed 11 people on a ship from Venezuela, US President Donald Trump said it was carrying narcotic substances.
Legal experts in the legitimacy of the raid, despite the Trump administration, have questioned that it has the power to target those suspected of being members of the criminal “Trin de Aragoa” gang that escapes drugs to the United States after Washington ranked by a terrorist organization earlier this year.
In a brief statement, he only confirmed the incident, the Pentagon likened the government of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro a drug smuggling gang, allegations that Caracas rejects. Trump accuses the Venezuelan president of Train de Aragoa management.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Communications did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
