Venezuela has put its armed forces on advanced alert and has ordered the mass deployment of troops across the country in consequence to the continued expansion of US armed forces in the Caribbean.
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced on Tuesday late evening that nearly 200,000 troops had been mobilized and placed in ‘full operational readiness’, and the land, air, sea and reserve forces were ordered to carry out war drills by Wednesday to guarantee the country's defence.
This announcement occurred shortly after the U.S. Navy reported that the USS carrier Gerald R. Ford, along with 3 associated ships, influenced an area supervised by the U.S. confederate Command, which according to the Pentagon covers most of Latin America and the Caribbean.
‘Ford’, the largest and most modern U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, with about 4,000 sailors on board, was transferred from European waters to Latin America as part of a mission "distortion of drug trafficking".
According to reports, his arrival increased US military presence in the Caribbean region to about 15,000 people.
U.S. president Donald Trump, who repeatedly accused Venezuela of supporting ‘narcoterrorists’, Last month, he ordered the fleet to enter the region and suggested that he could let attacks in the territory of this South American country.
Since September, the U.S. Army has conducted at least 19 attacks on tiny vessels in global waters, which it claims were utilized by drug smugglers.
More than 70 people have died in the media reports.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro denied drug allegations, accusing Washington of "fabricating a fresh war" in the face of the ongoing expansion of the armed forces.
He accused Washington of utilizing the communicative of drug trafficking as a pretext for a possible government change operation.
On Wednesday Maduro posted pictures of military exercises on social media, declaring: "We are ready to defend Homeland in all area and under any circumstances."
According to the agency Reuters, citing Venezuelan planning documents, the country's consequence besides provides for the usage of partisan tactics to counter possible American air or land attacks.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/627691-venezuela-military-us-buildup/
