Venezuela

The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, said Thursday that the American troops of “there was no” way that US troops could invade Venezuela after Washington was deployed Multiple warships and 4,000 troops to the Caribbean to press the Heavy leftist man.

The United States said the deployment in the Southern Caribbean, near the territorial waters of Venezuela, is an anti -drug traffic operation.

Venezuela has responded by Send warship and drones to patrol their coast and launch an impulse to recruit thousands of members of the militia to strengthen their defenses.

“There is no way that they can enter Venezuela,” Maduro said, promising that his country was well prepared to defend his “peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The United States, however, has not made a public threat to invade.

Maduro, who claimed a third mandate in dispute in the July 2024 elections, has been in the views of President Donald Trump since the first mandate of the Republican.

Since he returned to power in January, Mr. Trump’s attacks against Venezuela have focused mainly on their powerful gangs, some of which operate within the United States. But your policy of Maximum pressure in Venezuelaincluding an oil embargo on force, failed to evict Maduro from power.

Washington accuses Maduro of heading a cocaine traffic poster, Los Soles Cartel, which the Trump administration has designated a terrorist organization.

United States recently He doubled his generosity at $ 50 million for the capture of Maduro to face drug positions. Last year, the We use a plane Belonging to Maduro and brought it to the United States, with the Department of Justice claiming that the plane was exported as Florida in violation of US sanctions.

Maduro, who happened to the Socialist Fire brand Hugo Chávez in 2013, accused Trump of trying to change regime.

Thousands of civil officials, housewives and retirees aligned In the capital of Venezuela last weekend to join the country’s militia after Maduro called the citizens Respond to “extravagant threats” by the United States

On Tuesday, Caracas asked the United Nations to intervene in the dispute by demanding “the immediate cessation of US military deployment in the Caribbean.”

Venezuela announced on Monday the deployment of 15,000 troops to the Colombian border to combat drug trafficking. Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, announced that the Government was deploying the troops to reinforce security in the states of Zulia and Tachira, which border Colombia.

United States pointing to Latin American drug cartels

President Trump has directed the Pentagon To use military force Against Latin American drug cartels considered terrorist organizations, a source familiar with the confirmed issue to News themezone earlier this month. It is not clear if the military could take measures or when.

For its part, Mexico emphasized that “it would not accept the participation of US military forces in our territory.” Earl this month, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum insisted that there would be no “invasion of Mexico.”

In February, the Trump Administration designated Eight drug trafficking groups as terrorist organizations. Six are Mexican, one is Venezuelan and the eighth originates in El Salvador.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said at the beginning of this month that the administration could use the designations to “direct” the posters.

“It allows us to attack now what they are operating and use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever … to point to these groups if we have the opportunity to do it,” said Rubio. “We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug trafficking organizations.”

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