The Venezuelan aircraft They represent a danger to the forces in the Caribbean are exposed to be “demolished,” President Donald Trump said Friday, after fighters sent by Caracas survived an American ship in the area.
The United States decided to send 10 f-35 fighters to Puerto Rico in that tension context with Venezuela, which for its part called to dialogue and said that no difference between the two justifies an armed conflict.
The deployment of the fighters, communicated this Friday to the AFP by sources close to the matter, occurred just hours after that overflow, a “highly provocative movement,” according to the Pentagon.
“If they put us in a dangerous situation, they will be demolished,” Trump said shortly after renamed the Department of Defense as a war department.
“If they fly in a dangerous position, they can make the decisions that they create adequate,” Trump added adding to his now Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
Conflict is not justified
Washington accuses the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to lead a drug trafficking network and recently raised the reward for his capture to 50 million dollars.
When asked in the oval office if you want a regime change in Caracas, Trump dodged the demand: “We do not want drugs that kill our people.”
The US forces deployed against the Venezuelan coast launched a missile on Tuesday against a boat that allegedly transported drugs.
In the attack, unprecedented in the region, 11 “narcoterrorist” died “In Trump’s words.
“With all due respect I tell Mr. President Trump: here Venezuela is respected and Venezuela respects to respect her,” Maduro said in an act with military. “Those intelligence reports that pass it are not true. Venezuela today is a country free of coca, cocaine leaves and is a country that fights drug trafficking.”
“None of the differences we have and we have had to a military conflict,” he continued. “Venezuela has always been in the willingness to talk, to dialogue.”
Although annual UN reports do not qualify Venezuela from the producer country, their status as a drug distribution platform is highlighted by specialists.
Rubio tour
The United States has resorted for decades to routine police operations instead of using lethal force to seize drugs in the Caribbean.
Trump said “the boat traffic In that area it has lost substantially “from the attack.
The increase in tension coincided with a tour of the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for Mexico and Ecuador, where he signed new alliances to strengthen the fight against organized crime and illegal migration and warned that his government will not take place back.
Washington’s allied governments in the region “will help us find these people and to explode if necessary,” Rubio said at a joint press conference with Ecuadorian Chancellor Gabriela Sommerfeld on Thursday in Quito.
In Mexico, Rubio had affirmed that the only thing that will stop the drug trafficking posters It is physical elimination because they have already assumed to lose merchandise is part of the business and that does not prevent them from continuing to traffic.
Rubio emphasized that the US president appointed the Venezuelan band of Aragua as “narcoterrorist” as well as the Los Soles poster, an alleged drug organization that links with Maduro.
Mobilization
The Venezuelan president, on the other hand, has mobilized the army, which has around 340,000 troops, and reservists, which he states exceed eight million, denouncing what he calls “the greatest threat that our continent has seen in the last 100 years.”
He also opened the registration in the Bolivarian militia, a body of the armed force made up of civilians and with high ideological load.
A colorful and bustling caravan of unarmed civilians, aboard motorcycles, toured the Caracas highways as part of the mobilization “of the people in arms”.
Other demonstrations were replicated in other cities.
By qualifying drug traffickers such as terrorist threats, the United States resorts to their entire legislative arsenal approved after the attacks of September 11, 2001, which greatly expanded their ability to monitor possible objectives and lettically attack worldwide.
