AMID reports by Reuters of an anti-drug US military deployment into the South Caribbean, no comment was made by US government sources on this operation and no reaction was proffered by the Venezuelan government, some of whose members have US bounties on their heads for alleged narco-trafficking.

The US State Department posted a tweet on X citing Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlining how the US was addressing drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.

“There are designated narco terrorist groups operating in the region, some of them utilizing international airspace, international waters to transit poison into the United States, and those groups will be confronted. @POTUS (Donald Trump) has made that clear.” Earlier that day, the US State Department in a tweet offered a US$5 million reward for help to arrest the leader of Venezuela-based Tren de Aragua organisation which it accused of "a campaign of terror throughout our hemisphere."