Land strikes next? Trump ramps up threats against Venezuela over drug trafficking — watch

US President Donald Trump yet again threatened Venezuela to launch an operation on the land "pretty soon" and claimed that the drug traffic has gone down by 92 per cent.

Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “Drug traffic by sea is down 92%, and nobody can figure out who the rest 8 per cent is because I have no idea. Anybody getting involved in that right now is not doing well. We'll start on land too! It's gonna be starting on land pretty soon!”




Pressed if there is anything that the country can do to prevent potential land strikes, Trump said that he did not “want to say that.”



“I don’t want to say that, but it’s not only land strikes on Venezuela, it’s land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and killing our people,” the president added as quoted by CNN.

The US has announced new sanctions against members of Nicolás Maduro’s family and ships accused of moving Venezuelan oil.

The latest actions followed the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela earlier this week.

The Treasury Department said it targeted the ships and firms because they help fund what it calls Maduro’s “corrupt narco-terrorist regime.” It also said it was sanctioning three nephews of Maduro’s wife for their involvement in drug trafficking.

In the statement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Maduro and his “criminal associates” of flooding the US with drugs that are “poisoning the American people.”