US Military to Deploy Aircraft Carrier to South America
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Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro urges Donald Trump to avoid a “crazy war” after the US deploys its largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean amid rising tensions.
The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea. The Navy has eight warships in the region.
The US military is intensifying its operations in the waters near South America, deploying an aircraft carrier as part of a broader strategy against narcotics trafficking linked to the Tren de Aragua gang.
Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, a little over a week after another group of American bombers made a similar journey as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack.
Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region already seeing a large U.S. military buildup.
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The US military has been steadily massing a large number of troops, naval and air assets in the Caribbean over the last two months, conducting training missions off the coast of Venezuela, reopening a military base in Puerto Rico that had been shuttered for decades,
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