President Donald Trump has been presented with a list of potential strikes inside Venezuela as the administration weighs whether to escalate its campaign against the Caracas regime, according to a new report.
The Wall Street Journal detailed that the targets are considered nexus between the Nicolas Maduro regime and drug-trafficking organizations. They include military ports and airports, as well as naval facilities and airstrips.
The outlet noted that Trump hasn't made a final decision yet, but he has publicly suggested the current military campaign would go from conducting strikes against alleged drug boats in the ocean to others in land.
The focus of the escalation, it added, would be to convince Maduro to step down. "The President is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our homeland," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the WSJ in a statement.
Several Republican officials have been supportive of the operation, with some claiming that the regime's days are numbered. However, a growing number of GOP lawmakers are publicly demanding greater oversight of the campaign.
Libertarian Republican Senator Rand Paul has been among the sharpest critics, calling the strikes "extrajudicial killings" and saying that "no one said their name, no one said what evidence, no one said whether they're armed, and we've had no evidence presented."
However, the Trump administration is so confident that its military campaign is so popular that it doesn't need approval from Congress, according to another report.
Concretely, a White House official told Politico this week that the strikes against the vessels in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific fulfill a campaign promise from Donald Trump to deal with drug cartels.
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