“Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has accused the US of “fabricating a new war”, after it ordered the world’s largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.
The USS Gerald R Ford can carry up to 90 aircraft and its deployment marks a massive increase in US firepower in the region.
The US has conducted 10 air strikes on vessels in the area as part of what it says is a war on drug traffickers.”
deployment of out largest aircraft carrier.
does our POTUS want Maduro out.
how badly.
whats the end game here?
lots of questions to be answered in the upcoming days.
Due to the Maduro regime’s lack of information sharing on drug control issues writ large, the United States has little information to evaluate precursor chemical diversion or diversion control efforts.
According to Venezuelan law, the existence and use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and controlled chemical substances used by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as their derivatives, salts, preparations, and pharmaceutical specialties, are strictly limited to the quantities necessary for medical treatment, the legal production of medications, or scientific investigations.
The report lists Bolivia, Burma and Venezuela as being suspected of producing precursors of illicit drugs. Not drugs, precursors.
Venezuela addressed it. Let’s see Trump’s evidence to the contrary.
TCOs in Mexico continued to pose one of the greatest threats to the United States. The United States determined that Mexico was again the most significant source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues significantly affecting the United States in 2024, with the Sinaloa Cartel and New Generation Jalisco Cartel the primary distributors of those drugs in North America.