Name: US labels another Venezuelan group as terrorist, ramping up pressure | REUTERS
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Calling the move ridiculous, Venezuelan Vice President Delsey Rodriguez blasted the United States over its formal designation of Venezuela's Cartel de las Solas as a foreign terrorist organization.

The move comes after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group allegedly imports illegal drugs into the United States.

Rodriguez called it a non existent group.

The US has said members of Cartel de las Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, include Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro himself and other high ranking officials.

US Officials have also accused the group of working with Venezuelan gang Trenta Aragua, which Washington also ties to Maduro, who has always denied any involvement.

Maduro accuses the US of seeking regime change out of a desire to control Venezuela's natural resources, especially its oil reserves.

The US for months has waged a campaign of deadly strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and the Pacific coast of Latin America.

Experts have questioned the legality of the strikes, and

a Reuters poll this month showed that only 29% of Americans support using the military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved.

On Monday, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters that Trump did not plan to stop the strikes on suspected drug boats.

We view the Maduro regime as being illegitimate and the President has been very satisfied with the successful strikes against narco terrorists and foreign terrorists that are illegally trafficking drugs towards the United States of America.

He's not going to tolerate that and you can expect to see those strikes continue.

President Trump has built up US Military bases in the Caribbean, and

on Monday a wide array of aircraft was seen at the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Puerto Rico.

It's raised concerns that the US May seek to use the Cartel of the Sun's new designation to justify military action, though sanction experts have said the statute does not authorize such a move.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Cartel of the Sun's designation would bring, quote, a whole bunch of new options to the United States.

In excerpts released recently from an interview with one American news.