U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean Sea as | Political News

The United States’ most superior aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a show of U.S. army energy, raising questions about what the new inflow of troops and weaponry might signal for the Trump administration’s intentions in South America as it conducts army strikes against vessels suspected of transporting medication, the AP reported.

The arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford and other warships was announced by the US Navy in a public assertion. It indicators a major second in the Trump administration’s ‘counterdrug operation,’ focusing on ‘narcoterrorists,’ which has been widely regarded as an escalating strain tactic against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The Ford rounds off the most important buildup of US firepower in the area in generations.

With its arrival, the “Operation Southern Spear” mission consists of practically a dozen Navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and Marines.

The carrier’s arrival got here as the army announced its latest lethal strike on a small boat it claims was engaged in transporting unlawful medication. The army’s Southern Command posted a video on X on Sunday exhibiting the boat being blown up, an assault it said passed off Saturday in worldwide waters of the japanese Pacific Ocean and killed three males. A request for more info from the army was not immediately answered, according to the AP.

Since September, comparable strikes carried out by the US in the Caribbean have killed at least 83 people. The carrier strike group, which incorporates squadrons of fighter jets and guided-missile destroyers, transited the Anegada Passage close to the British Virgin Islands on Sunday morning, the Navy reported.

Rear Adm. Paul Lanzilotta, who instructions the strike group, said it should bolster an already large power of American warships to “protect our nation’s security and prosperity against narco-terrorism in the Western Hemisphere.”

According to stories, US army “training exercises” have begun in Trinidad and Tobago, which is only 7 miles from Venezuela at its closest level.

Venezuela’s authorities has described the training workouts as an act of aggression. It had no rapid remark Sunday on the arrival of the aircraft carrier, the AP reported.

President Maduro, who faces costs of narcoterrorism in the US, has repeatedly said the US authorities is “fabricating” a conflict against him. On Sunday, he wrote on his Facebook web page, “Venezuelan people are ready to defend their homeland against any criminal aggression.”