The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, questioned the actions of the United States in the Caribbean Sea where he deployed war buses with 4,000 navy personnel
Brazil denounced on Monday, September 8, the military presence of the United States (USA) in the waters of the South of the Caribbean in a context of growing tension between the Donald Trump government and the administration of Nicolás Maduro.
The United States deployed warships with 4,000 navy personnel at the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuela and sent a dozen f-35 fighters to Puerto Rico as part of an anti-narcotics operation.
“The presence of armed forces of the greatest power in the Caribbean Sea is a tension factor incompatible with the peaceful vocation of this region,” said the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, when opening a virtual meeting of the BRICs, in which his Chinese pair, Xi Jinping, and the Russian Vladimir Putin, both allies of Venezuela, also participated.
The deployment also coincides with the increase to 50 million dollars of the reward for information that leads to the capture of Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, whom Washington accuses of links with drug trafficking.
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Visit of the Pentagon Chief
The head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, made a surprise visit to Puerto Rico on Monday, as announced by the governor of that territory, Jenniffer González, in the social network X.
González thanked Trump “already his government for recognizing the strategic value that Puerto Rico has for the national security of the United States and the fight against drug cartels” in the hemisphere, “perpetuated by narcodicator Nicolás Maduro.”
Hegseth also visited the USS IWO Jima, one of the eight marine ships in the Caribbean, according to a publication of the Pentagon on social networks.
The publication included a video of Hegyseth addressing military personnel aboard the warship, with the head of the Pentagon telling them that they were working to “end the poisoning of the US people”, in reference to drug trafficking.
The visit occurs a week after the United States reported on the attack on an alleged drug smuggling vessel from Venezuela, an action that, according to Trump, killed 11 alleged drug traffickers of the Trena de Aragua gang, declared terrorist organization by his government.
Trump also warned of Venezuela on Friday that his planes will be “demolished” if they represent a threat, after Venezuelan fighters flown an American ship in the Caribbean.
The Venezuela government qualifies the drug trafficking accusations as “Great Farsa.”
The Vice President and Petroleum Minister of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, said that Washington seeks to “ensure a geographically territory that is noble to drug trafficking routes and ensure the immense energy reserves of our country.”
With information from Swissinfo.ch
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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