WASHINGTON — The Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, moved into the Caribbean region on Tuesday, adding to the capability of the United States to strike boats suspected of carrying drugs or targets on land in Venezuela as the Trump administration weighs further military steps aimed at ousting the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

In a statement, the Navy would identify the location of the Ford and its three accompanying warships only as being in the western Atlantic. But a senior military official said the vessels had moved into the Caribbean region, nearly three weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly ordered the carrier to leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea and rush to the waters off Latin America in a substantial escalation of U.S.

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