The US and has been on the knives for years and the tension is now reaching its peak. Or ordered amphibious armor, including three rocket launchers and equalized helicopters with 2,200-4,000 marines, off Venezuela, as part of the fight against the “drug trafficking”.
US President Trump is stepping up pressure on his counterpart: in early August, he doubled in $ 50 million a fee for information that would allow him to be arrested for “trafficking”.
According to sources in Reuters, the USS San Antonio, USS Iwo Jima and USS Fort Lauderdale, with 4,500 members of the US military personnel, including 2,200 marines, are expected to arrive in the area probably since Sunday.
In addition, at least three warships have been ordered to sail in the area, USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and USS Sampson. They are destroyers equipped with directed rockets and the AEGIS system, class Arleigh Burke. Also in the area is expected at least one submarine.
According to US media, it is projected to be sent to the area near the shores of Venezuela some 4,000 marines.
‘Drug cartel’
Donald Trump highlights the fight against drug trafficking to justify various spectacular decisions he has made from his return to the White House in January, from customs duties in Mexico and Canada as the wave of immigrant arrests from Latin.
The US government, which does not recognize Nicolas Maduro’s victory – challenged by the opposition – in the July 2024 presidential election in Venezuela, accuses him of being the “head” of an international “drug trafficking network”.
White House spokesman Caroline Levit described the Venezuelan government “drug cartel” Tuesday, and President Maduro “fugitive leader of this cartel”.
Asked about the possibility that the US Armed Forces will take action in Venezuela, said Donald Trump would use “all the means” to “prevent the drug from flooding our country”.
4.5 million ethnic guards
After describing the “miserable” and “coarse propaganda operation” the increase in the US remuneration for his arrest, President Maduro to “guarantee the whole territory” of Venezuela.
The National Guard of Latin America was established by former deceased former President Hugo Chavez, whose Mr Maduro is considered a political heir. According to official sources, it has some 5 million members, citizens or reserves, and refers to the General Staff.
Source: RES-EIA, AFP, Reuters
