Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has revealed that the U.S. ground strike in Venezuela was launched against a communist narcotics terrorist organization.
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 31, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says the U.S. has bombed a drug trafficking facility in Maracaibo in Venezuela.
It was operated by the Colombian communist terrorist organisation and drug trafficking group ELN. pic.twitter.com/EV8Sckxp3C
President Trump announced that the U.S. carried out a strike earlier this month against a “big facility” in Venezuela “in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.” Sources told CNN on Monday that the strike was a CIA supported by intelligence from U.S. Special Operations Forces against the Venezuelan narco-terrorist group Tren de Aragua.
President Petro of Columbia disputed that claim in a post on X, saying that it was actually the National Liberation Army who was attacked. The National Liberation Army, or ELN, is an ideologically communist narco-terrorist organization that operates in both Venezuela and Colombia.
“We know that Trump bombed a factory in Maracaibo; we fear they mix coca paste there to make it cocaine and take advantage of Maracaibo's location by the sea,” Petro said “It's simply the ELN. The ELN is allowing, with its trafficking and its mental dogma, the invasion of Venezuela.”
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Resulta que muchas lanchas atacadas con misiles, como está pasando en las incautaciones.que hacemos en Colombia o, con ayuda nuestra fuera de Colombia, no llevaban cocaína sino cannabis.
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Problema paradójico: en EEUU, en muchísimas partes es legal. Y el Congreso de Colombia no… https://t.co/EJb6yxZKat
The Trump administration has offered few details of the attack since it was announced last week.
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