US, Venezuelan officials still mum on Trump’s mention of action against drug boat facility

Officials in Washington and Caracas remained silent on Monday about President Donald Trump’s vague comments on a radio show last ‍week about an apparent US operation against a “big facility” in Venezuela, leaving questions about which part of the US government acted and what ‍target was hit.Trump made the comments on Friday, December 26 in an interview with John Catsimatidis, a billionaire talk show host, on the WABC radio station in New York. They were discussing Washington’s campaign to target vessels in the Caribbean and off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs to the US.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come ⁠from,” Trump said on the radio show. “Two nights ago, we knocked that out.”If Trump’s statement is accurate, it would mark the first known US land attack related to the administration’s campaign against Venezuela.Trump did not say which facility the US had