Trump acknowledged a covert U.S. strike on Venezuelan territory in an interview with a local news outlet on the day after Christmas, setting off a scramble to clarify which target he was talking about.

The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.

Trump says the U.S. carried out a strike targeting a dock used to load boats with drugs in Venezuela, marking the first known land strike.

Two members of Venezuela’s Wayuu indigenous community in the area told NBC News that they witnessed an unexplained explosion on Dec. 18 that destroyed a hut that possibly was used for storage.

DONALD Trump has said the US hit a ‘big facility’ in Venezuela last week, in the President’s first direct strike in the territory. In a radio interview Trump said the move came