When President Donald Trump was asked if he planned to make an attack within the Venezuelan territory in his fight against drug trafficking, he replied with a “you will see”, with his enigmatic gesture of eyebrows and mouth. The United States operations in the Caribbean have generated a psychological war that seeks to make the threat against Nicolás Maduro credible and exert pressure within its circle. , in which at least two were destroyed with their crew crews, according to the White House version, and the military presence in territorial waters across the Venezuelan coast, the bilateral tension grows as part of a war of narratives and intimidating speeches of which Chavism has accused receipt.
“It is not tension, he replies the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. Trump has shown the videos of the boats exploited by his military. From Chavismo, at least of the first case that occurred in early September, they say it was an image with artificial and mature intelligence has requested that what happened be investigated, but has described the movements of the United States as an aggression of the military nature. In the field and the discourse.
The possibilities of an invasion or attacks greater than those executed against three drugs allegedly loaded with drugs are diffuse, even with the naval deployment that has been made in the Caribbean. The former American defense official Franklin Mora, in an interview in CNN in Spanish, pointed out this week that the military capabilities that the United States has shown with a submarine, destroyers, cruises and between 4000 and 5000 Infantes de Marina is not enough to invade a country like Venezuela. “I don’t think this is a military invasion. It is rather a psychological operation that tries to intimidate and encourage the military through the fear of getting Maduro from power.”
In Mora’s opinion, the deputy deputy defense of Defense for the Western Hemisphere, with the equipment that has been displayed in the Caribbean United States, surgical operations could be carried out for the destruction of tracks used by drug traffickers, instead of intercepting ships, since the area is the main exit of drugs from Venezuela.
The intimidating narrative has been built in choir. Republican senator Bernie Moreno has predicted that Nicolás Maduro will not remain in power beyond 2025. His benchmate Mario Díaz Belart has said that “leaving the country, rotting in a jail or finishing powder inside a plastic bag.” But Diosdado Cabello has also warned that if they attack the government they will go against the opposition leader in the underground María Corina Machado. “Diosdado Cabello, do not even think of playing Mary Corina Machado. The United States and the whole world are looking at. If something happens to him, you and your accomplices will have nowhere to hide and the wrath of God will fall on you as a thunder,” Díaz Belart replied in the social networks of the last days.
The hair itself has revealed the intimidation strategy, although it remains on alert. “They threaten and the phase that is right now is the coconut [la cabeza]: The psychological war, which is almost always based on lies, manipulations, fake news, seeking to divide internal forces, because the thing is easier, ”he said a few days ago on his television program, With the deck giving.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is the man in whom Trump seems to have delegated his fight against drug trafficking in Latin America. A combat that no longer focuses on drug seizures and regular actions against posters, but on “making them fly through the air”, referring to drug traffickers, qualified by the Republican Administration as terrorist organizations. Rubio has also been more direct and threatening with Maduro, whom he has accused of being a criminal and fugitive of American justice and points out that he is not the legitimate president.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has also joined the intrigue campaigns with which the United States seeks to exert pressure- and above all generate confusion- about Chavismo. In recent days, messages have been accompanied by those of Machado and opposition leaders in exile that are assumed that the days of the Maduro government are counted. , he warned politics in a video last week. The Persecution of Chavismo, however, continues to make arbitrary arrests of militants of his party.
Chavista answer
The Venezuelan government has also come to exhibit weapons. Also high hierarchs have exhibited their good form and skill in the shooting polygons, as Freddy Bernal, governor of the state of Táchira, border with Colombia, expolition and unconditional of Maduro, as a way to show that they are ready for an armed struggle, if there were.
Every day that passes, Chavismo is prepared to face an aggression on the field, although repeatedly they have said that “Venezuela is subject to a psychological war.” Maduro has appeared in the middle of a formation of hundreds of military and police in training to show his enormous foot of strength before any threat. They claim to have recruited more than 8.2 million Venezuelans in the enlistment days the first days of September, which add to a body of 4.5 million militiamen already captured. That is, common citizens to whom the Chavista apparatus tries to submit to military training. Its defense minister has also appeared from a bunker showing the deployment of troops to the main borders of the country.
The bunker is actually a camouflaged tent. With a field uniform and wake -up hours under the eyes, the Minister of Defense has also recently accused the United States of doing a psychological war exercise against the country, but also warned that Venezuela is in “maximum preparation” and that if they decide to assault them, the country’s “potential” will become “national power.” The minister has assured that both the National Armed Forces and the Venezuelan people are willing to “give their lives.” This weekend, he accused Washington of intensifying aerial surveillance over Venezuela, citing an increase in espionage flights. “Now they went from a daytime pattern to do so at night and early, and tripled in August the intelligence and recognition operations against Venezuela.”
