Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump will “wage war” on narcoterrorists, one day after the United States military destroyed a drug-carrying ship operated by a foreign terrorist organization off the coast of Venezuela.

The precision strike killed 11 Tren de Aragua cartel members on board the vessel. The operation represented a dramatic, albeit expected, escalation after the Trump administration moved to target Latin American cartels by deploying a few Navy destroyers and several thousand Marines to the Caribbean region.