Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday accused the US government of “waging war” with his country, denouncing the continued deployment of US military assets – including now an aircraft carrier – in the Caribbean, officially as part of the fight against drug trafficking.
“They are plotting a new eternal war, promising never to start a war again, and manufacturing a war that we will prevent”the Latin American head of state emphasized in a speech broadcast by state radio and television.
Earlier, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered an aircraft carrier strike group based in Europe to move to the Caribbean region amid a massive build-up of US military forces in the region.
The Gerald R. Ford Task Force and its accompanying air force are being sent to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and counter narco-terrorism, the Pentagon spokesman said in a post. Sean Parnellin X.
Ford, a “class one” aircraft carrier, is touted by the US Navy as the largest warship ever built in the world.
Hegseth said on Friday morning that the US had carried out another overnight strike against a vessel he said belonged to a drug cartel and was transporting narcotics to the Caribbean. The strike, which Hegseth said resulted in the deaths of six people, brings the total number of vessels known to have been targeted at 10 and the death toll to 43 since the US campaign began last month.
Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.
The vessel was known by our… pic.twitter.com/lVlw0FLBv4
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 24, 2025
His government Donald Trump claims that President Maduro is the head of a drug-trafficking cartel. Caracas complains on the side of the pretext to overthrow the government and Washington to put in hand the enormous oil wealth of the South American country.
The US government has “invents an absurd, vulgar, criminal and absolutely false narrative”said yesterday Nicolas Maduro. “Venezuela is a country where there is peace, there is no production of coca leaves, there is no production of cocaine, and we have managed to eliminate 100% the transit of only 5% of drug trafficking originating in Colombia,” he added.
Source :Skai
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