Donald Trump said

US President Donald Trump has renewed his accusation that Venezuela sends gang and drug members to the United States, which he said was “not acceptable”.

Tension was raised between the two countries since the United States has deployed warships in the southern Caribbean of what officials said they were counter-nurses.

As part of this deployment, the United States has launched an attack on a boat that was carrying drugs in Venezuela, killing 11 people on board.

Asked by a journalist on Sunday if the United States “would now begin to strike on Venezuela continental”, Trump replied: “We will see what is happening”.

Addressing the journalists of New Jersey, the president said that Venezuela “sent us their gang members, their drug traffickers and their drugs”.

He said maritime traffic in the South of the Caribbean had considerably reduced “since the first strike”.

Experts raised questions about the legality of the September 2 attack on the alleged drug boat, saying that it may have raped international law.

Venezuela responded by piloting two F-16 fighter planes on an American navy destroyer two days later.

It led Trump to warn that all the Venezuelan jets putting “we in a dangerous situation” would be slaughtered.

After a brief lull, the tension increased again on Saturday when the Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, accused the American forces of boarding a Venezuelan ship.

Gil said the ship he described as a “small and harmless” fishing boat, had been seized “illegally and hostile” for eight hours.

In a statement, the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs allegedly alleged that those who had ordered the crisis “in search of an incident to justify the climbing of war in the Caribbean, in order to change the regime” in Caracas.

The United States, and many other nations, including the United Kingdom, did not recognize the re-election of Nicolás Maduro in July 2024, stressing the evidence collected by the opposition using independent observers showing that its rival, Edmundo González, had won the election with a landslide.

US officials have also accused Maduro of having directed a drug cartel called the Suns cartel and offer a reward of $ 50 million (37 million pounds sterling) for led to his capture.

Maduro denied allegations and accused the United States of an “imperialist decision” to deposit it.

He called on the Venezuelans to enlist in the militia, a force made up of civilians which, in the past, have been used mainly to increase figures during political gatherings and parades.

Public sector workers said they had been pressure to join the militia.