US President Donald Trump said this Wednesday that Venezuela created a tremendous problem for the United States in relation to drug trafficking and irregular immigration, and added: we are not going to allow it any longer, and the alleged drug traffickers who killed yesterday are not going to do it again.

Venezuela has acted very badly, both on the drug issue and by sending some of the worst criminals in the world to our country. They empty their prisons in Venezuela and send them to the United States. And that's part of the problem we have. We're getting rid of them, we're getting rid of them quickly, but they've caused a tremendous problem, Trump assured reporters in the Oval Office.

The president was asked about the deadly attack carried out by U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea against a boat allegedly belonging to the criminal organization Tren de Aragua, in which eleven narco-terrorists died.

There were huge amounts of drugs on the boat. We have recordings of them talking. These were massive amounts of drugs entering our country to kill a lot of people, and everyone understands that perfectly well, Trump said of the attacked vessel.

They won't do it again. And I don't think a lot of other people will either (transporting drugs). When they see that video, they're going to say, 'I think we better not do this,' the US president continued.

And he asserted: We have to protect our country, and we're going to do it. Venezuela is a very bad actor.

We're not going to tolerate it any longer. Venezuela is one of the worst actors in the whole group, and we have a pretty bad group of actors already, he added.

Trump claimed Tuesday that the vessel he said was transporting drugs had been shot down and shared a video from the U.S. Army's Southern Command showing the vessel, a small speedboat, being attacked.