
U.S. Navy warship USS Lake Erie crosses the Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal amid a U.S. naval deployment near the coast of Venezuela in Panama City on Aug. 29, 2025. Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump said on Oct. 15 that his administration is considering land strikes targeting Venezuelan drug cartels, an escalation of recent military strikes on drug trafficking boats off the nation’s coast.
During a news conference with FBI Director Kash Patel on Oct. 15, Trump said the U.S. military has “almost totally stopped” Venezuelan drug trafficking rings by sea, noting, “Now we’ll stop it by land.”
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