Venezuela’s Maduro warned US President Donald Trump to avoid escalating tensions in the Caribbean, pleading in English, “No crazy war, please please please,” after Washington ordered its most advanced aircraft carrier to the region. The deployment marks a major escalation in the Trump administration’s expanding military campaign against drug cartels in Latin America.

‘Not war, not war, not war, peace forever’, the Venezuelan president was seen saying in an official video. Also Read | ‘No crazy war, please’: Maduro urges Trump as US flies bombers near Venezuela

US Sends Aircraft Carrier to Caribbean Border

The Pentagon confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford—a nuclear-powered supercarrier capable of carrying up to 90 aircraft—has been redirected from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean

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