BBC- A US naval strike force centred around the world’s largest warship, the USS Gerald R Ford, has arrived in the Caribbean, the US Navy has confirmed.
The arrival of the strike group, which was ordered to the region by President Donald Trump last month, comes amid ongoing strikes against alleged drug boats and tensions with Venezuela.
The US has so far carried out at least 19 strikes against boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, killing at least 76 people.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other Venezuelan officials have accused the US of “fabricating” a crisis and seeking to topple the country’s left-wing socialist government.
In a statement, the US Navy said that the strike group entered the area of responsibility of US Southern Command – which oversees Latin America and the Caribbean – on November 11.
The force includes the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, which itself includes more than 4,000 sailors and dozens of aicraft. The strike force also includes guided-missile destroyers and various other vessels.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the force will “bolster US capacity to detect, monitor and disrupt illicit actors and activities that disrupt the safety and prosperity” of the US and will help “disrupt narcotics trafficking” and criminal groups in the region.
The carrier group is joining substantial military forces already deployed in the region, including thousands of troops, a nuclear-powered submarine and military aircraft based in Puerto Rico.
Collectively, they form the largest US presence arrayed in and around Latin America in decades.
The US has continued to launch strikes on alleged drug boats in the region. The Trump administration says the attacks are necessary to stem the flow of drugs into the US.
Earlier this week, the US announced it had conducted two additional strikes in the Pacific, killing six people.
The boat strikes have caused tensions to rise with the governments of Colombia and Venezuela, and led to concerns from some observers about violations of human rights and due process.
Earlier in November, Trump downplayed suggestions he was planning to topple the Venezuelan government or start a war.
In an interview with CBS – the BBC’s US news partner – Trump said that “every single boat that you see that’s shot down kills 25,000 on drugs and destroys families all over our country.”
Pushed on whether the US was planning any strikes on land, Trump refused to rule it out, saying: “I wouldn’t be inclined to say that I would do that… I’m not gonna tell you what I’m gonna do with Venezuela, if I was gonna do it or if I wasn’t going to do it.”
Advertise with the mоѕt vіѕіtеd nеwѕ ѕіtе іn Antigua!
We offer fully customizable and flexible digital marketing packages.
Contact us at [email protected]
👀👀👀👀
YES!!!! Come on down boys an gals let’s get Maduro outta there!!! Well Done Orange Man!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!
Who would have thought of this? Watching international news channel and listening to BBC radio about wars mostly up the middle east and Africa? but never thought it would be right here in our backyard.
I had some dreams a couple a years back of super fast military planes flying over Antigua and bombing the villages, at our proximity it’s not far from reality where a jet is been chased by a heat seeking cruise missile and they try to outmaneuver it all the way over let’s say Antigua and it drop on us instead, because these missile can travel far and fast, we may see the Caribbean as far apart, but the sea water between our islands is small as one these African state we are just little dots to be wipe out, and if any nuclear bomb is used in our sea water it will get our seafood contaminated and cancerous when eaten, and the fact that these ships and submarine is nuclear powered, we don’t even know if it’s water cooling system is released into our waters, we are not sophisticated and scientific like Russia and china to make test.
Our Chihuahua prime ministers can’t do a thing but lap their tails and stay quiet when the big dog is around.
🤔😟😳👀👁️…… why he don’t worry about the drugs in his own country 🙄🤦🏽♀️
Eldread relax it will be over really fast……Really really fast…..Venezuela does not have anything that can match US military might….heat seeking missile??? LMAO THIS AINT VIETNAM BOY!!!! Satellite guided is what shall be used and no Nuclear weapons will be used….No planes will fall anywhere near us no nothing we jus gonna continue life as normal while Maduro gets WACKED!!! So stop worrying in the words of Orange Man ‘IT’S GONNA BE GREAT AND UR ALL GONNA LOVE IT” LOL….
That carrier has weapons that can do enough damage to Venezuela without a single jet being catapulted…If Maduro had and nuclear weapons the US would dispatch a B2 Spirit, B1 Lancer or if they really wanna punish u a B52 Stratafortress
The most criminal government in the world, wants to bully a small country and take their resources just because they have the military power to do it, and then pretend it’s in the name eliminating the drug cartel. America time will come
@ Faithful National #2 NEVER!!!!!!! U nor ur great great great gandkids will ever see the US fall. Uncle Sam will forever be the world’s leading Super Power……The Us is eliminating Maduro because he is a dictator and a drug cartel promoter and is leaning towards the Russians…Can’t have the Russians who don’t wanna get out of Ukrane have access to venezuelan oil supply.. America needs a pro Western leader at the helm and that will happen in the near future…….We in the Caribbean will benefit BIG TIME from this inevitable change of government in Venezuela
Yes Russia has it’s own oil but the war in Ukrane is taxing their industry they will need another alternative eventually and America does not wan’t them to look over her at that Mad Dog in South America…
If this War On Drugs which is simply a money maker for the American Gangsters would stop 🛑 the addicts in America from getting their fixes every day, then The War On Drugs ramped up by Ronald Regan and his Nancy “JUST SAY NO” Regan would’ve cured every addict on every street from SURBURBIA, to HILL BILLYHOOD, to Capitaline Hill to Penn North in Baltimore, since, 1985!
Yet here we are in 2025 with the same rhetoric of, The War On Drugs, by stopping drug traffickers from dropping their goods on American soil. The American culture will never ever, ever, ever be weaned off drugs.
A…either one chooses their VICE from their parent’s medicine or liquor cabinets
Or…
B…the military and medical industrial complex’s choose it for you, then turn you loose on the society.
The excuse being used by the MAGA25 Movement and their agenda is the same premise used, by George Bush to go after Saddam in Iraq (Powell lied about weapons of mass destruction and sold the drugged up Americans the bullshit); by Barack Obama to go after Muammar Gaddafi in Lybia (Hillary and Barack were aware of the power of Libya’s gold and oil to back BRICS, so, they acted on the behalf of Wall Street).
This war on Venezuela is no different than the War on Iraq and Libya. Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex will be making BILLIONS as usual.
Kum een Ras Tafar I, and let Bob say…
…until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another, inferior, is finally and permanently abandoned, everywhere will be WARS! WARS! Rumors of WARS!
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
De’ole Dutty Peg🦶🏿 Garrat_Bastard
Vere Edwards
Dictator Maduro. Take off whiles you can…the limited space is closing up on you. Dont be foolish like Noriega. Flee and spare innocent lives.
Free venezuela
Patria o vida
Venceremos
Comments are closed.