The US Navy fast boats held 1000 kilograms of cocaine, says the Dominican Republic

The authorities in the Dominican Republic said on Sunday that it had confiscated some cocaine, which was transported by a rapid US Navy boat, while the Caribbean nation described it as the first operation of its kind.

in press conferenceThe National Directorate of the Dominican Anti -Narcotics Republic (DNCD) said it has recovered 377 packs of cocaine from the boat claiming to carry 1,000 kilograms, or more than 2,200 pounds, from the medicine. Drugs were recovered after a “air strike by the United States against a rapid drug boat,” DNCD said in A. statement.

Officials said the boat destroyed about 80 nautical miles south of Piota, a small island belonging to the Dominican Republic. They said that the Dominican Republic Navy worked in conjunction with the American authorities to determine the location of the fast boats that are allegedly trying to establish the Dominican Republic and the use of the nation as a “bridge” to transfer cocaine to the United States.

Officials issued a Video of the processShow the officers flee and search the brick from the alleged drugs, and some of them carry the word “men” on the package.

“This is the first time in history statement.

In August, the United States sent eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, while the Trump administration said it was important to fight drug trafficking.

The White House says it is the naval fleet At least three boats destroy Carry the drug so far. Separate strikes have killed more than ten people on board ships.

The authorities did not say whether anyone had been killed in the strike off the Dominican Republic.

Human rights groups said that the strikes on boats are largely the judicial killings, and on Friday, Democratic Senate members made a decision in Congress seeking to prevent the administration from making more strikes.

The Trump administration says that two boats that were sank from Venezuela, and White House officials often described as a drug dealer and a gang leader known as Cartel Sanz.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro denies the charges and described the US Navy in the Caribbean region as an attack on his country. Maduro described warships “A very criminal and bloody threat”

On two occasions earlier this month, the Venezuelan fighter planes flew near an American marine ship, regarding multiple officials of the Ministry of Defense Described for CBS News As a “chicken game”.

Venezuela Also accused The United States to seize the fishing pot in its exclusive economic area and detain nine hunters for several hours.

The US Navy has sent several warships to the water off Venezuela in recent weeks, and 10 F-35 fighters have been It was published in Portorico This month for anti -cyclical operations.