Trump warns Venezuela of ‘incalculable’ cost over migrant dispute
Trump threatens Venezuela with consequences if it doesn’t take back migrants, patients and criminals. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Venezuela with “incalculable” consequences if it refuses to take back migrants it has “forced into the United States,” as tensions soar with Caracas.
“We want Venezuela to immediately accept all of the prisoners, and people from mental institutions… forced into the United States of America,” Trump said, adding in all-caps “or the price you pay will be incalculable!”
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States had attacked a vessel he said was carrying drugs in the US Southern Command's area of responsibility, the latest US strike in the region
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The latest strike - at least the third against alleged drug vessels - comes amid a large US military buildup in the southern Caribbean. Five F-35 aircraft were seen landing in Puerto Rico on Saturday after the Trump administration ordered 10 of the stealth fighters to join the buildup.
In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said the Pentagon carried out the strike on his orders, killing "3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel."
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"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans."
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) is the US military's combatant command that encompasses 31 countries through South and Central America and the Caribbean.