Venezuela's Jus­tice Min­is­ter Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo is deny­ing U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s claim that the U.S. mil­i­tary de­stroyed a Venezue­lan ves­sel with drugs that could have been on its way to this coun­try.

He said al­le­ga­tions of this boat pos­si­bly head­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go as it was de­stroyed are ‘all lies’.

Min­is­ter Ca­bel­lo was speak­ing on his week­ly pro­gramme last night.

On Tues­day, the U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio claimed that the U.S. mil­i­tary de­stroyed a Venezue­lan ves­sel al­leged­ly car­ry­ing drugs, killing the 11 peo­ple on­board. U.S. au­thor­i­ties say it was pos­si­bly on its way to T&T.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued a state­ment right af­ter the in­ci­dent, stat­ing that she ful­ly sup­port­ed the ac­tions of the U.S. gov­ern­ment.

Min­is­ter Ca­bel­lo ac­cused the U.S. of be­ing ‘liars, say­ing the White House did not ex­plain how its naval forces de­ter­mined that the boat came from Venezue­lan ter­ri­to­ry.

He al­so ar­gued that U.S. au­thor­i­ties have failed to say what pro­ce­dure was used to iden­ti­fy the 'car­tel' al­leged­ly in­volved, as well as the na­tion­al­i­ties of those on board the ves­sel at the time of the mil­i­tary strike.