The Government of Venezuela claimed last night to have captured “a mercenary group with direct information” and, based on this, has assured that “a false flag attack” is underway with the aim of blowing up an open between Caracas and the United States.
“Venezuela reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the US intelligence agency, CIA, being able to determine that a false flag attack is underway from waters bordering Venezuela, or from Trinidad or Venezuelan territory itself, which generates a complete military confrontation against our country,” Caracas said in a statement released by the Ministry of Information.
In the text, the Government chaired by has compared this scenario with “the provocations of the Battleship Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin” in operations prior to the start of the Spanish-American war in Cuba and the Vietnam War.
Likewise, in the same piece, Caracas has denounced as a “military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the CIA” the military exercises with the United States announced on Friday and started this Sunday, which have led to the arrival in Port of Spain of the warship ” in parallel with the deployment of the largest North American aircraft carrier, ”, justified by the fight against organizations dedicated to drug trafficking in Caribbean waters.
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces to the international community the dangerous conduct of military exercises by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago between the 26th and 30th of this month, under the coordination, financing and control of the United States Southern Command, an action that constitutes a hostile provocation against Venezuela and a serious threat to the peace of the Caribbean,” the text reads.
At the same time, the Venezuelan Executive has criticized the Trinidadian for having “renounced the sovereignty of Trinidad and Tobago to act as a military colony subordinated to hegemonic American interests, converting its territory into a United States aircraft carrier, against Colombia and against all of South America.”
For Caracas, the Trinidadian Prime Minister, Kamla Persad Bissessar, “violates the Charter of the United Nations, the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace approved by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the principles of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).”
Furthermore, he has argued that the Trinidadian leader’s policy has hit her own population: “Innocent fishermen have been victims of extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea, revealing the repressive and criminal nature of the current government, which shoots at its own people (…) and celebrates that Trinidadians are summarily executed while opening the doors to murderous foreign troops,” the statement charges.
“Venezuela does not accept threats from any US vassal government. We are not intimidated by military exercises or war cries,” reads the document in which Caracas has stressed that its Armed Forces will remain alert and mobilized.
The US mobilization in the Caribbean occurs after the death of 11 people in three US attacks last week in the waters of the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean, parallel to the announcement of ground operations against drug trafficking by the tenant of the White House, which preceded the announcement of military exercises in Trinidad and Tobago and the deployment of the aircraft carrier ‘Gerald Ford’ in the Caribbean.
Trump’s main targets in the region have been Colombia and, above all, Venezuela, with whom the Republican president stated that his Administration is not very happy, for many reasons, although drug trafficking is only “one of them.” Previously, the North American president had already given the green light to the development of operations in Venezuela by the CIA, while Maduro ordered the indefinite deployment of troops and resources in five provinces, expanding the mobilization of 15,000 soldiers that followed the first US attack against ships in the Caribbean.
