https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/29/trump-knocked-out-facility-venezuela/87944176007/
President Donald Trump said the United States on Dec. 24 "knocked out" a facility, leaving unanswered questions about whether the military had launched its first on-land strike in Venezuela, which Trump has been threatening to attack for months.
"They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out," Trump said in a Dec. 26 interview on WABC, a New York City-based radio station. Trump did not elaborate on where the facility was.
Asked about the comment on Dec. 29, Trump told reporters the U.S. had hit an "implementation area" where drugs are loaded onto boats, but he gave no more details on the location or timing of the strike.
Trump's comment set off swirling rumors after local news reports and videos on X circulated of an explosion at an industrial zone in Maracaibo, a city in northwestern Venezuela. Primazol, a chemical production company, said in a public statement that a warehouse it owned in the area had caught fire in the early hours of Dec. 24, and in a later statement, that it "categorically rejects" the rumors on social media.
