The attack reportedly conducted by the CIA against a facility used by Tren de Aragua to store drugs and boats in Venezuela didn't cause any casualties, CNN reported.
The outlet noted that sources consulted for the piece described the strike as largely symbolic given the sheer amount of such infrastructure cartels have in the country.
The facility in question has been described as a remote dock believed to be used by the Tren de Aragua gang to load drugs onto vessels that would then journey through the Caribbean.
CNN added that Special Operations Forces provided intelligence support, but a spokesperson for the US Special Operations Command, Col. Allie Weiskopf, said that was not the case.
Trump acknowledged the strike on Monday but refused to disclose who was behind it. Speaking to press along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Monday, Trump was asked whether the U.S. military or the CIA had conducted the attack.
"Well, I don't want to say that. I know exactly who it was, but I don't want who it was. It was along the shore," Trump said.
Earlier, he claimed "there was a major explosion" in the "dock area where they load up the boats with drugs."
"We hit the boats now we hit the implementation area. It's no longer around," Trump added.
The Venezuelan regime has so far refrained from confirming the strike, revealed by Trump on December 26 while speaking with The Cats & Cosby Show. There, Trump said that U.S. forces had carried out a strike days before Christmas against what he described as a major installation linked to drug trafficking. The Venezuelan regime has not commented on the matter.
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