Venezuela accuses the United States of wanting to start a war in the Caribbean with joint military exercises in the Trinidad and Tobago archipelago. Trump acknowledged last week that he authorized clandestine CIA operations in Venezuela.
Venezuela claimed to have detained mercenaries linked to US intelligence this Sunday, and accused the United States of wanting to start a war in the Caribbean with joint military exercises in the Trinidad and Tobago archipelago.
“Venezuela denounces a military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the CIA to provoke a war in the Caribbean,” said the Government of Nicolás Maduro in a statement.
The regime claimed to have “captured a group of mercenaries with direct instructions from the American intelligence agencythe CIA, which led to the conclusion that a ‘false flag’ operation from Trinidad and Tobago’s territorial waters or even from its own territory or from Venezuelan soil to trigger a total military confrontation”.
Caracas also pointed out the “dangerous carrying out of military exercises by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago between October 26 and 30, coordinated, financed and controlled by the United States Southern Command”, which he considered “a hostile provocation against Venezuela and a serious threat to peace in the Caribbean”.
The arrival in the small Caribbean archipelago of the North American destroyer USS Gravely, accompanied by a unit of marines, was announced on Thursday, in the midst of pressure from President Donald Trump on the Maduro regime.
Washington sent seven warships for the Caribbean and one for the Gulf of Mexicoclaiming that they are part of the North American effort against drug trafficking, of which Nicolás Maduro accuses.
Trump acknowledged last week that he authorized clandestine CIA operations in Venezuela.
Since the beginning of September, the United States has conducted at least a dozen air attacks against vessels which they presented as being involved in drug trafficking, killing at least 43 people, according to reports from the France-Presse agency.
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, supports Donald Trump and has adopted a speech hostile to the Venezuelan regime since coming to power, against immigration and crime from Venezuela.
