A rocket launch of its destroyer, USS Lake Erie was found to enter the Panama Canal heading towards, where the US military development is causing the rage in.
The warship passed around 9:30 pm (05:30 today Greece) one of the Pacific Canal guilty and headed east to the Atlantic, reporters from the French News Agency found 80 km.
The warship, with the number 70 painted with white letters by its side, had tied the last two days to the port of Rodman, at the entrance of the Canal on the Pacific side.
US warship enters Panama Canal, heading toward Caribbean: AFP
– AFP News Agency (@afp)
The United States has announced the shipment of warships to the Caribbean saying that their purpose is to combat the international drug smuggling.
Washington announced last week the development of three destroyers equipped with directed missiles off the Venezuelan coast.
Nuclear -powered underwater
On Tuesday, an US official who asked for anonymity told the French Agency that he also decided to develop a rocket lacquer, the USS Lake Erie, and the USS Newport nuclear -powered submarine.
What did Venezuela answer
In response, Venezuela announced that it was sending ships of the Navy and unmanned aircraft (drones) for patrols in its territorial waters.
Washington and Caracas have been on the knives for years, and the new US president is stepping up the pressure on Venezuelan counterpart, whose re -election was not recognized in July 2024 by the previous (until January) US President Joe Biden.
The Trump government increased in August $ 50 million the amount of remuneration offered for information that would facilitate the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, who accuses him of being a “head” of drugs that is being traveled by drugs by Cártel de Los Soles (“Sun cartel”).
