Winds of war are rising in the Caribbean Sea, where tensions between the United States and Venezuela are rising above critical levels.
A US missile ship has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago, the small archipelago located about ten kilometers off the coast of Venezuela . Journalists on the spot confirmed the arrival. The ship was visible this morning off the coast of the capital, Port of Spain. The arrival of the USS Gravely, along with a Marine unit, officially comes for exercises with the Trinidadian army , but it comes amid growing tensions between the US and Venezuela, with Caracas accusing Washington—engaged in a military campaign against narcotics—of preparing for war.
Yesterday , the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford also arrived in Puerto Rico, joining a contingent that already includes three assault ships and amphibious transports, F-35B fighters, P-8 patrol planes, and MQ-9 drones. According to military analysts, this deployment of forces is oversized for the intended task, which is to intercept drug traffickers' boats .
From Caracas, President Nicolas Maduro accused the United States of having begun "manufacturing a war," a "new eternal conflict that they promised they would never again." Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino had already warned that the country's armed forces "are preparing every day to defend every inch of territory" in the face of the "military threat posed by the United States' naval and air deployment, which is getting closer every day to the Venezuelan coast."
(Unioneonline)
