Explore the latest developments concerning US Military Strikes.
Venezuela’s Maduro says he is ready to declare state of emergency if US attacks
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he is preparing to declare a state of emergency to protect his country in the event of an attack by the US military, amid rising tensions over the deployment of American warships to the Caribbean.
In a televised address Monday, he told the country the âconsultation processâ had begun to declare âa state of external unrest, in accordance with the Constitution, and to protect our people, our peace, and our stability ⦠should Venezuela be attacked by the US empire, militarily attacked.â
The address follows weeks of rising tensions following the US deployment of warships to the Caribbean Sea on what Washington insists is a mission to combat drug trafficking but Caracas believes is aimed at regime change. The US has accused Maduro of involvement in drug trafficking â an allegation he strenuously denies â and recently doubled the bounty for his arrest to $50 million.
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U.S. Strikes in the Caribbean Set to Challenge Maduro and Trump
In less than a month, U.S. forces have carried out three lethal maritime strikes and one boarding in the Caribbean Sea targeting vessels allegedly tied to Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles and its ally, the Tren de Aragua. The campaign marks the arrival of a new U.S. doctrine that may have a broad impact in Latin America: traffickers linked to designated terrorist organizations are no longer treated as criminals for prosecution, but as enemy combatants who can be neutralized without legal proceedings.
The scale of the deployment underscores how seriously Washington is treating this campaign. The naval and air assets concentrated in the Caribbean Sea today represent more firepower than the U.S. committed to the Battle of Midway in 1942—one of the pivotal clashes of the Pacific War—and it is the largest military mobilization since the deposition of Manuel Noriega in Panama in December 1989. The comparison illustrates the level of resources Washington is dedicating to confronting Venezuela’s state-protected cocaine networks, as the deployment of these forces represents a sizable multimillion-dollar daily expense.