The government of The United States denounced that two military planes from Venezuela They flew near a US Navy Ship In international waters on Thursday night. They qualified the fact as “Highly provocative” and warned Caracas against a greater escalation. In addition, they announced that They will deploy their own fighters in the region.
He Defense Department The Trump administration announced last night a statement in which the alleged Venezuelan military maneuver questions in hard terms. “Today, two military aircraft of the Maduro regime flew near a ship from the United States Navy in international waters. This highly provocative maneuver was designed to interfere with our operations against narcoterrorism”, Reported.
In the message, they recommended “firmly to the poster directed by Venezuela”, in reference to the government of Nicolás Maduro, “Do not continue with any additional effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with operations against drug trafficking and against terrorism carried out by the United States Army.”
According to information published by BBC Mundo, Venezuela would have used F-16 combat airplanes And the target of the maneuver would have been the ship USS Jason Dunham. It is a destroyer of guided missile Aegis of the Arleight Burke class, part of the flotilla displeased by the United States in the southern Caribbean.
The government of Donald Trump accuses Ripe to be at the forefront of a drug trafficking network. In the last time, the reward for their capture raised Au $ 50 million and recently ordered to display war ships in the Caribbean, in what the Republican president called an anti -drug operation. The fleet will be added ten F-35 combat aircraft on a Puerto Rico airfield, Reuters reported.
Scale the tension between the US and Venezuela after the attack on a ship in the Caribbean
The announcement made by the US occurs three days after US military forces attacked a ship in the Caribbean Sea that, Trump himself said, transported “massive amounts of drugs” from Venezuela. In the event eleven people were killed.
According to their statements, those involved belonged to the group known as Aragua trainto which Washington has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump also warned that these types of actions will continue if attempts to enter drugs to the country: “That this serves as a warning for anyone who even thinks about trying to introduce drugs in the United States of America. Attention!”, He concluded.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroresponded to the attack of USA to a Venezuelan boat that, as he said Donald Trump was “Loaded with drugs”, and said the American military deployment In the Caribbean it has the ultimate goal of “seizing” of the oil of his country.
“They come for Venezuelan oil, they want it for free, they come for gas. That oil does not belong to Maduro and less to the gringos, it belongs to you. It is from the people of Venezuela,” Maduro emphasized.
Source: Ambito
