Nicolás Maduro has already asked members of the air force to be in “alert, ready and willing” to defend Venezuela’s rights.
Donald Trump announced that he will act “very soon” on land against “Venezuela drug traffickers”. Caracas has already appealed to the state of readiness of the Venezuelan air force to defend the territory.
“You’ve probably realized that people no longer want to deliver [droga] by sea, and we will begin to stop them by land. Furthermore, it’s easier on land, and that will start very soon. We warned them to stop sending poison into our country,” said Donald Trump on Thursday in a phone call with military personnel on the occasion of Thanksgiving.
The Republican leader, who did not detail what the land actions would consist of, highlighted the attacks in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific, where US forces killed more than 80 people by destroying more than 20 vessels allegedly linked to drug trafficking, mostly from Venezuela, since September 1st.
The actions were carried out by a naval and land military detachment in the region, which includes the largest military ship in the worldthe aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, with four thousand soldiers and 75 fighters on board, which the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, interprets as an attempt to remove him from power.
Venezuela asks the Air Force to be on standby
The Chavista leader asked air force elements to be in “alert, ready and willing” to defend Venezuela’s rights.
“I ask you to always be imperturbable in your serenity, alert, ready and willing to defend our rights as a nation, as a free and sovereign homeland, and I know that you will never fail Venezuela, I know that Venezuela is counting on you,” Maduro said on Thursday.
Dominican Republic authorizes US to use airports
On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth, sSecretary of Defense of the United States, was in the Dominican Republic, whose Government authorized the United States to “provisionally” use two airports as part of the fight against drug trafficking in the region.
