As the U.S. ramps up its fight against drug cartels, President Trump ordered three military ships just off the coast of Venezuela to combat illegal drug smuggling. NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura reports.
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Stop calling Maduro the president, he is a dictator and has been for the last 20 + years, he has destroyed my nation call what it is!!!!
In this world if you're opposed to the usa everything you do is unlawful. If you're the usa everything you do is lawful.
Maduro says Trump wants to invade Venezuela.
Viva the people of Venezuela! Fight YT power
Get rid of ALL THE CARTELS
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
usa bully again…control your own citizen…not findi g excuses on others..❤
Is this Trump's Special Military Operation? Shouldn't he be off the coast of Mexico instead? Another Epstein distraction?
What about the Guyana Government links with the Venezuelans drug cartels including the Chinese . Something don't add up .Who in Washington benefits from drugs and gold coming from Guyana .
US intervention in Latin America will result in an all American war
Cartel just excuse..they want venezuela oill..keep fighting venezuela..dont give ur land to white colonial imperialist power
And trump want Nobel peace prize for this
Wow! In my 48 years on earth I have never seen this! Thank you President Trump!
Mexico is about to look like gaza
Lies! Lies! Lies! American politicians don't give a damn if Americans are dying of addictions. They're in Venezuela to steal oil!!!!!
Sound like they force you to take drugs 😅.
One Seabee drone and the Americans will learn what the Russian have, easy big targets can be taken out with one little sea drone.😂😂
Awesome! Bring it on guys. It's only Venezuela, it's roughly the same size as Texas. We'll have it wrapped up by the end of the summer. To our service men, I say "Go get em boys and GOD speed!"
THAT'S ONE OF BIDENS INCOMES! THESE CARTELS! HE GETS HIS CUT FROM THE FENTANYL THAT CHINA SHIPS THROUGH THESE CARTELS TO KILL AMERICANS! JUST WONDER HOW MUCH HE GOT DURING HIS PRESIDENCY?
I can’t believe that GREAT USA super power USA can’t stop drug Cartels and blaming Venezuela shame on USA …Promoting ARAB for crude oil taking percentage and controlling crude oil price Sanctions on Venezuela…Don’t Showoff every single country know yours Dirty game…
Guess which country has the largest oil reserve😂
Oil i mean cartels?😂
US/CIA made more drug addicts in Viet Nam but they were good drugs.
When has it wver been Venezuela
They lying to you. Drug prices remain the same, unchanged
He did not agree with Rubio that’s they are lying about cartel 😢
They are starving over there trump just created four million jobs in Venezuela after their cartel leader is gone they will make gold statues to trump
Nothing about drug cartel; this is another regime change operation.
No blood for oil, As long Americans buy and use drugs there will be suppliers. Respect your neighbors because Latin America is not USA backyard.
Hahahahahaha
Drugs destroyed the African American communities 😢
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
– USMC Maj. Gen. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER
"I spent thirty-three years…as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
– USMC Maj. Gen. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER
I am from Venezuela, and I want to clarify that this is not a government; it is a narco‑regime (and it is important to make that clear). For years, my country's armed forces—led by the kingpins Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, and Vladimir Padrino—have been trafficking Colombian cocaine in partnership with the ELN through the states of Zulia and Apure. This “merchandise” leaves the country by air (almost always on night flights, in small planes, from clandestine airstrips in the south of the country, often headed for Honduras) and by sea (mainly through the states of Anzoátegui and Carabobo). No one wants to talk about this in Venezuela because doing so means certain death. So, as far as drug trafficking is concerned, I will leave it at that.
Approximately 80% of the population lives in poverty, while cartel members and their families live like multimillionaires (their wives and children reside lavishly in the US, Spain, Portugal, the UK, France, and other safe havens). According to some estimates, the regime has stolen between $300 billion and $500 billion from the public treasury over the last 25 years. In the opinion of many, this represents the largest theft from any nation; in fact, the amount stolen by regimes such as Suharto's pales in comparison. (A drug cartel with so many resources, unlimited oil, and armed forces at its service is not exactly something that benefits the stability of this hemisphere, by the way.)
The minimum wage is $1 per month. The regime grants some extra “benefits” to its employees and repressors (like all oppressive regimes), specifically the possibility of collecting bribes from businesses, transporters, etc. It is a regime that is rotten from head to toe. Maduro is not the president. In the last elections, his scheme to steal the vote was uncovered, and the opposition managed to obtain the voting tallies thanks to a network of volunteers and anonymous military personnel. Those tallies showed Edmundo González (representing opposition leader María Corina Machado) as the winner with almost 70% of the votes. Maduro, finding himself cornered, interrupted the vote count and declared himself the winner—without ever showing the voting tallies (each tally sheet has a QR code that is impossible to replicate).
By the way, since Maduro is not the legitimate president but merely a drug trafficker who has hijacked the Venezuelan state, the US is fully within its rights to eliminate him (he is just the head of the Cartel of the Suns).
DISTRACTION! RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES!
God is in control… Doing all this to remove evil..🤲🙇🪖⚔️👊📖👊
The drug cartels keep getting worse and worse every year. Every US president has been weak not putting them all out of business..Trump is not weak Biden. Venezuela people would be wise not to fight for Maduro
Yet Columbia is the big drug source. Columbias kisses Trumps $$$
Rump is making money of Columbia,
Americans are such sheep, just going along to Trump's game and drama.
So now Venezuela is drug dealing lol
Go get em Trump!
We did it back in the 80s. Kept us busy . Good job ! USN Veteran.