United States forces returned there surpass their own grades in its military strategy of intimidating the government of Nicolas Maduro. The intrusion of two US F-18 fighter jets into Venezuelan airspace for 40 minutes last Tuesday represents an escalation in bilateral tensions. It was the same day that the President of the United States, Donald Trumpassured in an interview with Politico that Maduro’s presidency “The days counted“.
This military operation is part of the operation “Southern spear” (Southern spear), began in August and, according to Trump, is intended to end the drug trade from Venezuela to the United States. In this context, the United States qualified the Poster of the Suns as an international terrorist organization and Maduro and Diosdado Cabello as members, which legally allows it to treat them as criminals. This process is already taking time 87 victimsmainly Venezuelans on board ships that were attacked on charges of transporting illegal drugs. Register the largest US military presence in the Caribbean since the military invasion of Panamain 1989.
The F-18 fighter jets violated Venezuela’s territorial sovereignty
The variant aircraft two-seat F/A-18 Super Hornetthey started from Aircraft carrier USS Gerald Fordthe most important ship in the US Navy, which doubled the number of US military personnel in the region with a crew of 7,500 soldiers. The ship is anchored 50 kilometers west of Aruba.
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From there, the jets conducted corkscrew maneuvers over the Gulf of Venezuela, 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the northeast Maracaibowhich is the second largest city in the country with more than three million inhabitants.
Global real-time flight tracking service Flightradar24 recorded the event around 12 p.m. Venezuela (1 p.m. Buenos Aires). The area where the overflights were carried out is of strategic importance as it is very close large oil facilities Venezuelans.
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The Pentagon described the maneuver as “routine in international waters,” but international analysts interpret it as an implicit message from Washington to force concessions in negotiations over air control and the oil embargo, in a context in which President Donald Trump has warned against it Closure of Venezuelan airspace for civil flights.
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This action is part of a deployment of 15,000 US troops in the southern Caribbean. Since the start of the operation Southern spearthey have registered 22 bombings against speedboats in the Caribbean that caused at least 87 deaths, prompting lawsuits from organizations such as the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to reveal the legal basis for these interventions.
One attack in particular has raised domestic political concerns in the United States: the Bomb attack kills two survivors from an earlier attack that drifted in the Caribbean. Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the federal government show video of the attack as pressure mounts on the defense secretary Pete Hegsethto explain the reasons for the action.
Meanwhile, the military costs of Trump’s meddling in the Caribbean are rising by the day, and the opposition is warning that Venezuela could become “another Vietnam”: a long, expensive, painful and useless conflict.
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