President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.
While speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump insisted that the U.S. Coast Guard could not effectively stop drug traffickers.
"We've been doing that for 30 years, and it has been totally ineffective," he insisted. "Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world-class speed boats, and — but they're not faster than missiles."
"Right now we have, I would say, none coming in through the seas. In fact, I don't know about the fishing industry," he continued. "We've almost totally stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop it by land."
"I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now, because we've got the sea very well under control."
According to The New York Times, the Trump administration recently authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.