{"id":39642,"date":"2025-12-29T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39642"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:48:05","slug":"trump-confirms-us-carried-out-strike-on-dock-area-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=39642","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms US carried out strike on \u2018dock area\u2019 in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=c68fe25d-2462-4ed9-8159-1f3bbdc07a54&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has said the US carried out an attack on a \u201cdock area\u201d in Venezuela, confirming that Washington had struck inside the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a major explosion in the\u00a0dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,\u201d the president said in response to questions about the strike on Monday, ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hit all the boats and now we hit\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009the implementation area. That is where they implement, and that is no longer around,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> added.<\/p>\n<p>The president did not say whether the US military or the CIA had carried out the strike, and would not confirm whether others had been conducted. <\/p>\n<p>Trump told a radio interviewer last Friday that the US had earlier that week destroyed \u201ca big [drug] facility\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009where the ships come from\u201d as part of its campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers. He said the public had probably \u201cread\u201d about it, but did not say where the strike took place.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether the \u201cbig explosion\u201d on the dock was the same as a blast that occurred at a coastal chemical plant in San Francisco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/venezuela\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">Venezuela<\/a> on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical company Primazol on Monday \u201ccategorically rejected\u201d the notion that the US was behind the explosion at its plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe responsibly clarify that these statements have no relation whatsoever to the incident that occurred and do not correspond to official or verified information,\u201d the company said in a statement. Primazol has declined to say what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who has been designated by the Trump administration as the head of a \u201cforeign terrorist\u201d drug cartel, has described the US naval build-up in the Caribbean as a pretext for his ousting. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"vslaphzr\" class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A7cc1775a-5bec-4e57-a120-9640e9a401f2?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=1 1x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A7cc1775a-5bec-4e57-a120-9640e9a401f2?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=2 2x,https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/ftcms%3A7cc1775a-5bec-4e57-a120-9640e9a401f2?source=next-article&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=700&amp;dpr=3 3x\" width=\"2158\" height=\"1438\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Nicol\u00e1s Maduro: \u2018Venezuela has been threatened by Goliath for 27 weeks\u2019<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But neither Maduro, who spoke to Venezuelan armed forces on Sunday, nor interior minister Diosdado Cabello who delivered a news conference on Monday, addressed Trump\u2019s claim or the chemical plant explosion.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"234a7494-daf4-43df-902e-444237a308dc\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/234a7494-daf4-43df-902e-444237a308dc\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2048\/1152\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"o-teaser__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.ft.com%2Fv3%2Fimage%2Fraw%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%252Fproduction%252F1cb101d0-8f13-43e7-9475-78f7f797192f.jpg%3Fsource%3Dnext-article%26fit%3Dscale-down%26quality%3Dhighest%26width%3D700%26dpr%3D1?source=next&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;dpr=2&amp;width=240\" alt=\"Montage featuring Venezuela\u2019s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, military aircraft and a satellite image of a ship\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cVenezuela has been threatened by Goliath for 27 weeks, and for 27 weeks our military force has been deployed with intelligence, wisdom and strategic patience,\u201d Maduro said during his Sunday speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration says it has carried out 29 strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing at least 105 people since September. The US carried out its two most recent attacks on boats on December 22.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Ana Rodr\u00edguez Braz\u00f3n in Caracas and Steff Ch\u00e1vez in Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c68fe25d-2462-4ed9-8159-1f3bbdc07a54\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}