Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels

Published on September 5, 2025 at 05:11 PM
Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels

Move comes after accusing Venezuela of buzzing US warship and a deadly US missile strike in Caribbean Sea

Donald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was reported on Friday.

If follows a deadly US missile strike on Tuesday on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration insisted was carrying 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, and comments by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Wednesday that such attacks “will happen again”.

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