President Donald Trump is launching a military campaign in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific and is sending in naval and air assets to combat drug trafficking.

The military presence of the United States around Venezuela in South America has grown. On Tuesday, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in Latin America. The US Southern Command, which oversees Latin America and the Caribbean region, stated in a release that the USS Gerald R. Ford is now part of their area of operations. The deployment of the vessel was ordered three weeks earlier to help combat drug trafficking in the area.

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In the meantime, Venezuela has threatened that this could provoke a wider conflict and claimed it was also making mili

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