According to CNN, the target of the attack was “a remote dock on the Venezuelan coast that the US government says was used by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to store drugs and transfer them to boats for further shipment.” Television sources said that no one was on site at the time of the drone attack and no one was injured.
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What was the purpose of the CIA attack?
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Were there any casualties during the attack?
What did Trump say about gangs in Venezuela?
US special forces were to provide intelligence support for the operation. According to one of the sources cited by the station, although the facility was destroyed, the attack was mainly symbolic, because it was one of many ports from which drugs leave Venezuela. It was also not noticed even inside the country, although it was the first known US attack in Venezuela.
Covert operations in Venezuela. “We hit land”
President Donald Trump first spoke about the attack in an interview with New York's WABC radio and confirmed it again on Monday, without providing details.
“There was a big explosion in the dock area where they load their boats with drugs,” Trump said. “We've been hitting all the boats, and now we're hitting the land. This was an implementation area (…) And it no longer exists, he added.
Already in November, Trump announced that he had authorized secret CIA operations in Venezuela, without mentioning what operations he was talking about. Tren de Aragua is one of the Venezuelan gangs that the Trump administration has officially designated a terrorist organization. During the election campaign last year, he claimed that this gang was taking over entire housing estates, including: in Aurora, a suburb of Denver.
