Maduro’s anger over the US-Trinidad joint exercise
Maduro called the US-Trinidad joint exercise “irresponsible” and considered it a threat to Venezuela. At the same time, the United States has expanded its military presence in the Caribbean and tensions have intensified in this region.
According to Isna, while Washington has increased its military presence in the Caribbean, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday described and condemned the new joint exercise between the United States and its ally Trinidad and Tobago as “irresponsible”.
Caracas says recent U.S. military activity in the region — which Washington claims is against drug cartels — is actually a ploy to topple Venezuela’s leftist leader, Maduro.
According to AFP, this is the second joint exercise between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago in less than a month.
In October, a US guided-missile destroyer docked in Trinidad for four days for another round of exercises; An action in the firing range towards Venezuela, which the country’s government called “provocative”.
Maduro said at a ceremony in Caracas on Saturday: “The government of Trinidad and Tobago has once again announced irresponsible exercises and has made available the coastal waters of the state of Sucre for military exercises; “Exercises aimed at threatening a republic like Venezuela, a country that does not allow anyone to threaten it.”
Maduro asked his supporters in the eastern states of his country to organize a “night party and a permanent march in the streets” at the same time as these exercises are held, which are scheduled for November 16-21.
The United States has sent warships, fighter jets and thousands of troops to Latin America in recent weeks and attacked 21 suspected drug-trafficking boats, killing at least 80 people.
Washington has provided no evidence that the men were smugglers, and human rights watchdog groups say the raids are illegal anyway.
On Tuesday, a US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in the region, prompting Caracas to announce a massive deployment of troops in response.
American Secretary of War Pete Hegst announced on Thursday the beginning of a military operation aimed at “narco-terrorists in our hemisphere”, but it was not clear how this operation differs from the current deployment of American forces.
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