CIA struck Venezuelan dock allegedly used for drug smuggling: reports

The CIA struck a remote dock in Venezuela last week in the first known attack inside the South American country since the US began its months-long campaign against suspected drug traffickers in September.

The spy agency used a drone to strike the dock, believing that it was being used by the notoriously savage Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to load drugs onto smuggling vessels, CNN and the New York Times reported.

No one is believed to have been killed or wounded in the attack. 

However, two people were killed when a vessel was hit in the eastern Pacific on Monday — the 30th US strike since Sept 2. 

Attacks in international waters ordered by the Trump administration have killed at least 107 accused narcoterrorists.

But the dock strike represents an escalation of the president’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whose illegal regime was described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “intolerable” for the United States earlier this month.

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