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🇻🇪 Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has accused the US of "fabricating a new war", after it ordered the world's largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.

The USS Gerald R Ford carrier can carry up to 90 aircraft and its deployment marks a massive increase in American fire power in the region.

The US has conducted 10 illegal air strikes on boats in the area as part of what it says is a war on drug traffickers.

US President Donald Trump has falsely accused Maduro of being the leader of a drug-trafficking organisation, which he denies, and there are fears in Venezuela that the US military build-up is aimed at removing the long-time opponent of Trump from power.

The US does not recognise Maduro as the president of Venezuela, after the last election in 2024 was widely dismissed internationally, and by the opposition in Venezuela, as neither free nor fair.

Venezuela plays a relatively minor role in the region's drug trade.

In its announcement on Friday, the Pentagon said the USS Gerald R Ford carrier would deploy to the US Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes Central America and South America as well as the Caribbean.

The additional forces "will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle transnational criminal organisations", spokesman Sean Parnell said.

In his address, Maduro accused the Americans of seeking "a new eternal war".

"They promised they would never again get involved in a war, and they are fabricating a war," he told state media.

The carrier's deployment would provide the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground.

Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of what he called "land action" in Venezuela.

"We are certainly looking at land now, because we've got the sea very well under control," he said earlier this week.

Kaliningrad:
Venezuela's Maduro:

The U.S. government is fabricating a new war.

They promised never again, but we’ll stop it with the mobilization of South America.

Our message: no to war, yes to peace.

DMCA:
See person wey want peace price

Julius1995:
Venezuela is an evidence that natural resources don't build nation. Human resources - especially leadership - does. Sub-saharan Africa is another example.

Mathewrichard99:
See who's talking. US nonget your time at all, they just want you to stop sending your drugs to the coastal area of US. That's the reason the Warship is position at the Caribbean to monitor your dogs. Maduro is a clown, trying to buy sympathy from the world against US. The world wouldn't even look at you, a drug dealer and a dictator ruler to the good people of Venezuela.....

jaxxy:
Maduro thinks being president of Venezuela by force is hos birth right.

Kaliningrad:
U.S Planning An Invasion Of Venezuela - President Maduro Warns (Photos)

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