U.S. Is Deploying an Aircraft Carrier to Latin America
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an aircraft carrier strike group currently stationed in Europe to the Caribbean region amid a massive buildup of US military forces in the region.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is routing a carrier strike group to US Southern Command to bolster efforts in a new Caribbean drug war.
Experts call it "21st-century gunboat diplomacy" as U.S. positions strike-capable forces in Caribbean amid tensions with Maduro regime and cartels.
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro urges Donald Trump to avoid a “crazy war” after the US deploys its largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean amid rising tensions.
The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea. The Navy has eight warships in the region.
Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region already seeing a large U.S. military buildup.
The flights come amid a string of US strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and a growing American military buildup around Venezuela.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, a little over a week after another group of American bombers made a similar journey as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack.
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