He claimed to have closed the airspace over Venezuela. This is what Donald Trump wrote on Truth, his social network."To all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers, please consider that the airspace over and around Venezuela will be entirely closed," the US president posted.

The post comes on the same day that the New York Times reported that Trump had a telephone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. During the conversation, which took place last week, the White House resident reportedly discussed a possible meeting in the United States. The US newspaper adds that no such meetings are currently planned. Since taking power, the Venezuelan leader has never met with a US president. Washington and Caracas declined to officially comment on the news, the NYT writes.

The revelation of the conversation comes as Trump—as the post on Truth demonstrates—continues to use bellicose rhetoric against Venezuela and Maduro, whom the US administration recently designated as the leader of a terrorist organization. The reference is to the Cartel de los Soles, one of the alleged drug trafficking groups targeted by the raids the United States has been conducting in the Caribbean for weeks.

A report from the Washington Post, however, reports how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the"killing of all" crew members of a vessel in the Caribbean accused of transporting drugs."The order was to kill everyone," two sources with direct knowledge of the operation reported. The attack, the first ordered by Trump as part of the declared war on Venezuelan narcos, and carried out by the Seals, took place on September 2, off the coast of Trinidad : two survivors of an initial raid were reportedly killed.