Why the U.S. is building up troops in the Caribbean

On August 7, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Trump administration had doubled the existing bounty on Nicolas Maduro , the left-wing President of Venezuela, to $50 million for information leading to his capture. The administration has accused Mr. Maduro of being “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world”. According to Washington, he heads Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns), a Venezuela-based drug cartel that has been designated as a global terrorist organisation by the U.S. The U.S. Treasury Department said in July the Maduro regime facilitated “narco-terrorism through terror groups like Cartel de los Soles”. Ms. Bondi further claimed that Mr. Maduro has links with Tren de Aragua and Sinaloa Cartel, both criminal organisations designated as terror group