Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and In­for­ma­tion Fred­dy Nanez has dis­missed the video show­ing US mis­sile fire on a boat churn­ing across the sea in the south­ern Caribbean.

As Guardian Me­dia cel­e­brates 108 years to­day, I find my­self re­flect­ing on my own jour­ney—27 years, to be ex­act—since I first walked through those tow­er­ing wood and glass doors on the ground floor, wide-eyed and ea­ger, to be­gin my stint as a free­lance sports writer un­der the guid­ance of the leg­endary Valenti­no “Tino” Singh, then Sports Ed­i­tor, now re­tired.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that the U.S. has car­ried out a strike in the south­ern Caribbean against a drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel that de­part­ed from Venezuela and was op­er­at­ed by the Tren de Aragua gang.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar has ex­pressed strong sup­port for the Unit­ed States’ strike on a Venezuela-based drug ves­sel, say­ing she has “no sym­pa­thy for traf­fick­ers” and that the US mil­i­tary should “kill them all vi­o­lent­ly.”