The head of the United States Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey, reported this Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the Pentagon’s largest, entered Caribbean waters.
“Through firm commitment and the precise use of our powers, we are ready to combat transnational threats that seek to destabilize our region,” Holsey said in a press release published on the website of the US military organization and cited by the agency. EFE.
The US operation has orders from the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and follows guidelines from President Donald Trump, who seeks to dismantle transnational criminal organizations and counter narcoterrorists to defend their territory.
The head of the US Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey, reports that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the Pentagon’s largest, entered Caribbean waters with the objective of “combat transnational threats.”https://t.co/dQP3p1PMI7
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The aircraft carrier will accompany the 22nd Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Iwo Jima, as part of the military operation “Southern Spear”, related to Washington’s fight against drug trafficking in Latin America and increasing tensions of the Trump Administration with Venezuela.
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, with capacity for 4,500 crew members and 70 aircraft, it is considered by the United States Navy as the “most capable, versatile and lethal combat platform in the world.”
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Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, Sean Sobers, confirmed that the US Navy would arrive in the Caribbean territory today to continue military exercises with the Trinidadian Defense Force, amid tensions with Venezuela.
Tensions between Venezuela and Trinidad also intensified with the docking in Port of Spain a week ago of the USS Gravely, a US destroyer equipped with guided missiles, according to the Spanish agency.
In recent weeks, US forces deployed in the Caribbean have destroyed more than a dozen vessels allegedly linked to drug trafficking, attacks in which most of their crew members have died.
