CNN’s Cohen: CIA Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela ‘Appears To Be a Major Escalation’

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COHEN: "Yeah, Omar, this CIA drone strike appears to be a major escalation. And it‘s one that Donald Trump, the U.S. President, has been projecting for several weeks now as he‘s been threatening strikes against targets on land inside Venezuela. But now we‘re learning through sources that that has actually happened, and it does appear to signal an aggressive new phase of this ongoing pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. That‘s somebody who you may remember White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in an interview with Vanity Fair recently, said Donald Trump wants to push Nicolas Maduro out of power. And this CIA strike, this covert operation appears to be a step in that direction. We‘re learning through sources, though, that this strike was carried out earlier this month on a facility located on the coast of Venezuela. It appears to be a port and a dock type facility, one that the U.S. believes was being used by the gang Tren de Aragua to load drugs onto ships and for transport. And this facility was vacant at the time of the strike, we‘re told, so because of that, there were no casualties. But still, this is a movement in in a more aggressive direction by the U.S., which has really focused its strikes on those alleged drug boats in international waters to date.”