“They keep sending drugs by land. Much less, because they think something big is going to happen. And they’re right. Something very serious is going to happen.

The equivalent of what’s happening at sea.
We will notify Congress, just to inform them. We’re doing it for national security.”

You could look at a country like Mexico, and I really respect the President, I really respect a lot of the people over there, but a lot of the leadership, but they are in fear in their own country because those cartels are running those countries.

“We know that the CIA is present not only in Venezuela, but everywhere in the world where there is a U.S. embassy.”

"Mexico is run by the cartels and we have to defend ourselves from that"

"I don't think we're necessarily going to ask [the Congress] for a declaration of war

I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them.

They're going to be, like dead."

Colombia is a drug den, a thug is the leader of that country.

We are not going to put up with it much longer.

"In the world of the Caribbean, the deficiencies are so great that people dedicated to fishing and the use of the lancha (speedboats) end up providing services to drug trafficking," said Petro.

Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Six male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters—and was the first strike at night. All six terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

If you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda. Day or NIGHT, we will map your networks, track your people, hunt you down, and kill you.