U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the vessel targeted in the strike departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a 'designated narco-terrorist organization.'

The U.S. military attacked a vessel from Venezuela in the Caribbean on Tuesday that was carrying illegal drugs, officials said, in the first known operation since the Trump administration’s recent surge of warships to the region.

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House: “We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat.”

“And there’s more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time ... These came out of Venezuela,” Trump said. He said the Pentagon would soon be providing further details

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