Overview
- In a WABC interview Friday, President Trump said the U.S. "knocked out" a "big plant or big facility" two nights earlier.
- Speaking Monday, he described a "major explosion" at a dock area where boats are loaded with drugs, without naming a location.
- American officials told the New York Times the target was a drug facility in Venezuela, but the CIA, Pentagon and White House declined to elaborate.
- Venezuela has not acknowledged any strike, and unverified local reports point to a Dec. 24 industrial blast in Maracaibo.
- If confirmed, a land strike would be the first of this campaign, which has featured strikes on suspected drug boats with 100-plus deaths, a regional military buildup and recent tanker seizures.