On October 7th, local time, when US President Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Carney at the White House, he claimed that a new "waterway drug" was flowing into the United States from Venezuela through the Atlantic Ocean and other waters. He used this to defend the recent U.S. military's repeated strikes on Venezuelan offshore ships.

"We call them waterway drugs, drugs that come in from the water," Trump said during the meeting. He said that the United States has destroyed several suspected drug ships.

In recent weeks, the United States has launched several airstrikes in the Venezuelan coastal waters on the basis of "fighting drug trafficking groups".U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Hergezs posted on social media on 3rd, respectively, that the U.S. military sinked a "drug trafficking ship" in the southern Caribbean, near international waters of Venezuela, all four people on board were killed.