The US administration on Sept 3 said military operations against drug cartels would continue following the Sept 2 strike on a drug-carrying boat killing 11 people.
Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello condemned the strike, calling it “barbarism and illegal massacre”.
00:30I mean, the video, what they're saying is a test against them.
01:00But Venezuela has been very bad, both in terms of drugs and sending some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world into our country.
01:07Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know, 2% of their cargo.
01:13They bake it into their economics.
01:16What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them.
01:19So they were designated as what they are.
01:21They are narco-terrorist organizations.
01:23So the same information and the same intelligence mechanisms with maybe a higher focus was used to determine that a drug boat was headed towards eventually the United States.
01:33And instead of interdicting it on the president's orders, he blew it up.
01:38And it'll happen again.
01:40Maybe it's happening right now.
01:41I don't know.
01:42But the point is the president of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations.
01:48This one was operating in international waters, headed towards the United States to flood our country.
01:52And under President Trump, those days are over.
01:55Yeah.
01:55Supongamos.
02:02Así, un ejercicio.
02:04Que era droga, que iban 11 personas y que le dispararon.
02:12Supongamos.
02:13Que era droga.
02:15Y ellos tienen derecho a asesinar a una persona.
02:17Lo que Estados Unidos presentó como un golpe contra narcos no es más que una masacre ilegal en aguas internacionales.
02:25Violaron el derecho internacional, violaron sus propias leyes y lo más grave, violaron un principio humano elemental, el derecho a la vida.
02:34Esto no fue justicia, fue barbarie.
02:37Un acto imperial que pretende imponerse como ejemplo de fuerza.
02:40Aquí en Venezuela, nosotros podemos hablar de esto.
02:43No somos cómplices de nada de esto.
02:46Ni de narcotráfico, ni de ejecuciones en alta mar.
02:49¿Combatimos narcotráfico?
02:51Sí.
02:52Venga de donde venga.
02:53El Trump administration appears to be committed to this policy of treating drug carteles o alleged drug traffickers as a military outfit, a terrorist organization that's, in effect, invading the United States.
03:11Therefore, military force is justified against them.
03:14The message that they're sending here is that there's been a paradigm shift in how the United States will do security in the Western Hemisphere.
03:21I think in past administrations, both Republican and Democratic, we've had administrations keen on security partnerships in the region and working through partners to try to increase security cooperation.
03:34What I think is happening now is the United States is taking a more unilateral approach.
03:38They're looking at the results of the last several decades of security cooperation and seeing that things have come up short.
03:44It's a much more robust posture, but I wasn't surprised because that naval deployment is generational in its composition, and it's there for a reason.
03:54There was simply a strike without really asking for a vessel to give up.
04:00I think the message from the administration there is these are foreign terrorist organizations.
04:04The rules of engagement have changed.
04:14Yeah, thank you.
04:19I think the message?
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