Personnel from a U.S. warship boarded a Venezuelan tuna boat with nine fishermen while it was sailing in Venezuelan waters, Venezuela’s foreign minister said on Saturday, underlining strained relations with the United States.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tensions between the two nations escalated after U.S. President Donald Trump in August ordered the deployment of warships in the Caribbean, off the coast of the South American country, citing the fight against Latin American drug cartels.
While reading a statement on Saturday, Foreign Minister Yván Gil told journalists the Venezuelan tuna boat was “illegally and hostilely boarded by a United States Navy destroyer” and 18 armed personnel who remained on the vessel for eight hours, preventing communication and the fishermen’s normal activities. They were then released under escort by the Venezuelan navy.
Trump’s now copying Xi’s playbook of harassing commercial vessels in their own waters with his military. Fucking dictator.
I wonder what the odds are that the other boat they blew up wasn’t actually a ‘drug boat’?
For this admin? Unfortunately high. So to speak.
So why is the UN not saying anything about what the US did here? No sanctions? Nothing??? They’ve been yarping about Palestine this whole time while doing nothing substantial about it and now, the US literally killed people they had no right to kill. Why aren’t they doing anything to stop the US?
Fully agreed, but since the US is pretty much led by the US, expect nothing. Any resolution that comes up will immediately be vetoed to death and then the US will call the sponsoring countries terrorists or something and then they have to deal with the same shit.
The US is a terror state now, now to your mob boss
Tuna is slang for Fentanyl, right? Right??
I need some more of that spicy tuna!
