The U.S. Navy is deploying eight warships to the Caribbean and Pacific near Central and South America for a counter-narcotics mission targeting Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro The U.S. Navy is sending a powerful squadron of eight warships to patrol Caribbean and Pacific waters (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
The U.S. Navy is unleashing a formidable armada of eight warships into the Caribbean and Pacific waters near Central and South America, flexing their muscles in a region rarely seeing such a show of force.
The armada is made up of three destroyers, a cruiser, an amphibious assault ship and a littoral combat ship, and is all part of a high-stakes “counter-narcotics” mission, according to an insider.
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