Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 01:34pm on 03 Sep 2025,Wednesday International
On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces carried out a strike in international waters of the southern Caribbean, targeting a vessel allegedly transporting narcotics for the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, resulting in 11 deaths. Trump shared night-vision footage on his platform, calling it a warning to would-be traffickers. The U.S. labelled Tren de Aragua a "narco-terrorist" group operating under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a claim Caracas rejected and denounced the video as potentially AI-generated. This occurred amid a heightened U.S. naval deployment in the Caribbean intended to combat drug trafficking—a move that Maduro criticized as imperialist and provocative. (PC: Sky News)
