According to several American media, the Trump administration also plans to send 4,000 navies to the Caribbean region, near the Venezuelan coast.
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Donald Trump brandished the fight against drug trafficking to justify many of his spectacular policies since his return to the White House in January, customs duties imposed in Mexico on the wave of muscular arrests as Latin American immigrants qualified as illegal.
The US government, which does not recognize the largely disputed victory from Nicolas Maduro to the last presidential election in Venezuela, accuses it of being involved in an international “narcotrafic” network.
The spokesperson for the White House Karoline Leavitt described on Tuesday the Venezuelan government as “narco-terrorist cartel” and Nicolas Maduro as “fugitive chief of this cartel”.
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Questioned by the press about the possibility of a deployment of American troops in Venezuela, she said that Donald Trump would use “all means” to prevent drugs from flooding our country “.
After having described as “pathetic” and “gross political propaganda operation” the new American bonus to arrest him, Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen “to guarantee the coverage of the whole territory” in Venezuela.
Founded by President Hugo Chavez deceased, of which Nicolas Maduro is the successor, the Venezuelan militia is, from an official source, made up of five million people, civilians or reservists, placed under the command of the army.