America is interested in Maduro’s escape from Venezuela

According to RCO News Agency, the American authorities announced last week that the “Gerald Ford” aircraft carrier task force has entered the Latin American region; An action that has significantly increased the level of military confrontation with Venezuela, and the Pentagon claimed in a statement that this operation is aimed at “disrupting drug trafficking and weakening and destroying transnational criminal organizations.”

The “New York Times” newspaper quoted a senior European official as saying: “American officials insisted in their briefings that they were simply increasing tensions to see how Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would react; “Hopefully he will flee the country or be arrested and sent abroad for prosecution by the United States.”

This senior European official further referred to Iran’s military power and said: “When the American officials were asked how they assess the risk of removing this aircraft carrier from the Middle East; Where this ship plays an important role in missile defense against Iran, no answer was provided.”

Nicolás Maduro has repeatedly indicated that the increase in US military presence in the region is aimed at “overthrow” him. In August, Washington doubled the reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest to $50 million, accusing him of “connections to drug traffickers and criminal gangs”; A charge that Maduro has denied.

“I’m not sure if President Donald Trump’s administration has confused the war on drugs with regime change in Venezuela,” argued Patrick Doody, former US ambassador to Venezuela and senior lecturer at Duke University. “If indeed the government sees Maduro as a cartel boss and considers him a fugitive from US justice, it shows that their ambitions go beyond just intercepting drugs in the Caribbean.”

The New York Times continued this report: “Trump’s aides insist that the president has not yet made any decision about military action, although he announced several weeks ago that ground strikes against targets in Venezuela were coming. Some officials also say that the types of these attacks against drug centers, military forces or Mr. Maduro’s inner circle have been discussed on the eve of national security meetings this week.

Some American media reported on Thursday, quoting informed sources in the White House, that US Secretary of War Pete Hegst, General Dan Kaine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, and other senior officials informed Donald Trump about “military options against Venezuela”.

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