President Donald Trump confirmed during the 59-minute period ending at 11:15 p.m. UTC on December 29 that the United States conducted its first land strike against a drug facility in Venezuela, destroying it in a massive explosion, according to an X post by @nicksortor. The post stated: "The United States has just conducted its FIRST land strike against Venezuela, President Trump confirms. The military took out a drug facility, resulting in a “massive explosion”". X user @agusantonetti posted during the same period that the CIA has entered operations in Venezuela. These reports follow President Trump's earlier confirmation on December 29 of a US strike on a Venezuelan dock area, as reported by the Financial Times and cited by X user @FT, and the US State Department's announcement of visa restrictions targeting families and associates of drug traffickers along with a $50 million reward for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The State Department statement declared, "President Trump is keeping narco-terrorists OUT," specifying measures to counter narcotics threats linked to Maduro's regime, according to an official @StateDept X post issued earlier in the evening.
