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Venezuela faces intensified military pressure.
The Pentagon announced on October 24 that it is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group to Latin American waters, significantly boosting the number of personnel and vessels involved in the fight against drug cartels.
President Trump has dispatched the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the region, now under the jurisdiction of US Southern Command.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell stated:
“In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR). The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.”
CBS News reported that the USS Gerald R. Ford, commissioned in 2017, is the Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, measuring over 1,100 feet and displacing 100,000 long tons. It is powered by two nuclear reactors and can reach speeds of 34.5 mph.
The carrier group will join eight U.S. vessels already in the region, including three destroyers, a cruiser, a littoral combat ship, an amphibious assault ship, and two transport ships. The Ford was previously deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
This deployment follows a recent U.S. strike on a vessel allegedly linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has been accused of drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and her Carrier Strike Group, which includes the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers USS Mahan (DDG-72), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), and USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), are now en route.
Footage has emerged showing U.S. Army Osprey aircraft and helicopters taking off in large numbers from a Puerto Rico airbase, indicating an imminent escalation in operations against the Cartel de los Soles.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has shifted his tone, appealing to Trump in broken English, stating, “No CRAZY war, please please please. Not war, not war, not war. PEACE FOREVER.”
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