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United States President Donald Trump has shown openness to engage with Venezuela, all while his military expanded presence in the Caribbean Sea with carrier strike groups.
Speaking to reporters on November 16, Trump suggested that future talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro could be on the table.
“We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out,” Trump said, adding: “They would like to talk.”
Pressed for more details, he replied: “Venezuela would like to talk. What does it mean? You tell me, I don’t know… I’d talk to anybody.”
Earlier on the same day, the U.S. State Department said it would classify “Cartel de los Soles” as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) Washington claims that Maduro is the head of the criminal organization, more known as the “Cartel of the Suns” in English.
“Cartel de los Soles by and with other designated FTOs including Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
The escalation against Venezuela began back in August, when the Trump administration doubled the reward for the arrest of Maduro to $50 million on drug trafficking charges and dispatched an amphibious ready group led by the USS Iwo Jima landing helicopter dock to the Caribbean Sea to counter drug cartels.
Also on November 16, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, joined USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean. The carrier reached the Southern Commander (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility earlier this month.
The Ford brought the total number of U.S. troops in the Caribbean to around 12,000 on nearly a dozen Navy ships in what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dubbed “Operation Southern Spear.”
Rear Adm. Paul Lanzilotta, who commands the Ford’s carrier strike group, said in a statement it will bolster an already large force of U.S. Navy warships to “protect our nation’s security and prosperity against narco-terrorism in the Western Hemisphere.”
The U.S. military has already targeted some 21 boats alleged to be carrying drugs in both the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. The strikes, which began in September, have so far claimed the lives of at least 83 people, all alleged drug traffickers.
The most recent strike, announced by SOUTHCOM on November 16, was the first to be carried out as a part of the Joint Task Force Southern Spear. It hit a boat in the international waters of the eastern Pacific a day earlier and claimed the lives of three people.
The latest developments show mixed signals from the U.S. to Venezuela. On one hand, the U.S. military is now fully ready to attack the country, and recent reports revealed that Trump has been briefed on such operations more than once in recent days. On the other hand, Trump appears to be open to talks with Maduro.
While the Trump administration has been using the drug problem as a pretext to pressure Caracas, it is likely eyeing the country’s oil reserves, the largest in the world. A deal that opens this sector for investment by American companies could be more attractive for Trump than a risky regime change military operation.
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imaginative but senseless.
putler betrayed syria that he got a picture with erdogan at the brics meeting in kazan
kazan seems like khazar and kazakh to me. if your namesake kallas were worth anything, she would send european soldiers to ukraine to force all the russians out of ukraine.
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you forget that the european soldiers should flag the swastika for adolf trump, your dear fuhrer, copycat of adolf hitler rothschild, khazar. they all come up with the same idea, why not attack russia, and suicide europe !
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” i never had sex with that man ” etcetera
ukraines ars russian and yoh ought to know it .they’re genetically all russians. but ukraine’s aren’t very orthodox .russian’s are .ukraine’s are more catholic. like nazis and fascists .
and he knows full well that they are not guilty. the democrats don’t care, but they will care about them if they can put trump in prison for a very long time. the dead are worth more than the living if the democrats can put trump in jail because of them. say what you will.
dream on .unbelievable.
trump is a flaming piece of damaged goods…nobody can trust this kosher sausage stroker..he destroyed his administration credibility in less than a year. i think that beats braindead biden
speak for yourself.
dump killed innocent fishermen.
if the democrats have the chance to put him in jail, that will be a nice indictment.
if the iranians did to traitors pulter and the ass i would toast with champagne.
either way, the muscovites would think the ukrainian military was to blame.
because of the dirty traitors vlad putler and the ass hezbollah is cut off from iraq and the sea.
the russian jewish shame (putler) is so great that it has become bigger than russia.
last time i check russia still has bases in syria. bashar assad wife was sick, he is not interested in politics. he is a family man. he allowed syria to rot from inside. this is not duty for iran or russia to fix. next generation of syrians will be fighting the zionist cancer. no security for palestine means no security for jews
it seems russia do not fix anything the witch burners do. maybe they will succeed in genocide of ukrainans, but what about the root cause on the other side of the atlantic ? the genocide in palestine are to a big part performed by russians, and everyone which call them jews lie. the abraham “religions” are nothing else than psychopaths forced onto white people.
do try to keep up .who were the nazis enemies? england allegedly on the face of it , who were the ukraines allies with but the nazis. russua under stalun had a treaty wuth hitler of non aggression but ” someone ” induced hitler to break it and the dickhead did and sealed his fate .what a dumbarse,now the alleged leader zekensky with zero military experience or training ,a clown by profession. we’re supposed to believe is actually running the show in ukraine.as if .
brain rot more like it from archaic anachronistic nazi overdose .
just stop writing your obvious rubbish please it’s tedious pointless futile waste of space.
it’s like a play that repeats, venezuelans should *never* negotiate.
just ask the iranians how their last negotiation with the us turned out.
very similar to every negotiation the native americans had with white people.
the french armed them against the british. you saw how that turned out for france. .not all white men are the same that’s just racist rubbish the russians never went gallivanting around the world invading and stealing lands en masse that was the greatest empire the sun never set on .britain .they had no living space on their tiny island.
you mean the hundreds of millions obama sent them in several flights in cash or the lifting of sanctions by biden so they would fund hamas ?
wow what a total piece of propafanda for drug trafficking money laundering criminals .who funds you .
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i wish that venezuela, russia, china iran, and/or north korea all co-operate on this one and send a clear message to the zionist west. enough is enough. if venezuela is attacked (as per usual, under laughably false pretenses) then whatever aircraft carriers or main strike ships the collective west has in the area should all be sunk, put a definitive end to the attack. only let the smaller boats sail home.
don’t be so silly .
andwhat exactly is the hero of the left rfk jnr doing as director of health ? as if we all don’t know about them ,all in it .
“2500 fbi & ice agents storm seattle hospital drug network ” you tube .
they’re all in it together
diana. princess of wales.
we know it’s common knowledge .
globally its the exact same operation. has been fir decades longer most likely sincs whoever wrote the books; dr jekyll and mr hyde.
hypothetical we all know sir jimmy saville ,devout catholic attended church every week ,even buried right next to the catholic bishop of leeds and knighted by the pope in 1990 .would rock up at hospitals in his rolls royce, he had 17, something like that , totally above the law ,just to visit. no other bbc star hero icon could afford 17 rolls .was ge getting extras ,happy endings ?
he was allowed by rule of law total access to anywhere in any hospital that he wanted without any security allowed to interfere at all in any way .not even to monitor him at all .
no such thing as “openness.” just barbarianism.