The US military firepower concentrated off the coast of Venezuela, already massive, has increased dramatically.
Oh, how the times have humbled Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro!
When the US was struggling under feeble Joe Biden, an emboldened Maduro banged his war drums non-stop, credibly threatening to invade neighboring Guyana and seize its oil-rich Essequibo province.
Read: POWDER KEG AMERICA: Maduro Signs Into Law Referendum Claiming Essequibo, Guyana as Part of Venezuela, Says Guyana Is Governed by US Southern Command, the CIA and Exxon-Mobil
But the first year of Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House and the subsequent siege of Venezuela with the largest military detachment since the Cold War led the ‘tyrant of Caracas’ to cynically become a self-professed ‘advocate for peace’.
So, Yesterday (10), Maduro was in Colombia for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to make a desperate plea for unity of Latin American countries.
But today, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, USS Gerald R. Ford, and its entire strike group have arrived in the area of responsibility of the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM).
Pressure is building.
Latin Times reported:
“Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro called on Latin American countries to ‘proclaim the unconditional defense of our America as a peace zone’ as the U.S. continues its military campaign in the region.
[…] ‘The union of America is not a rhetorical gesture, but the condition of our liberty and key to our dignity’, Maduro said during a passage of the lengthy letter.”
Watch: ‘pacifist’ Maduro’s troops mow down protesters in 2019.
Cuando te digan que Maduro es un “angelito” y que las acusaciones de crímenes de lesa humanidad son falsas…
Enséñales este video.pic.twitter.com/YdS3ye66ff
— Emanuel Figueroa (@EmaFigueroaC) October 25, 2025
“Maduro added that two centuries after independence wars from Spain, ‘the forms of siege have change but not their essence. Naval and aerial formations are being deployed in the Caribbean, including cutting-edge aircraft carriers, destroyers and nuclear submarines’, Maduro added, noting that the operations ‘have led to the death of civilians in the high-seas and have been defined by the UN’s High Commissioner as extra-judicial killings’.”
The United States Navy officially announced the warships operation aims to ‘dismantle transnational criminal organizations and combat narcoterrorism in defense of U.S. territory’.
“’The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere’, said Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell. ‘These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations’.”
The Gerald Ford, which was commissioned in 2017, is the United States’ newest aircraft carrier and the world’s largest, with more than 5,000 sailors aboard. pic.twitter.com/JLakju6Qk6
— DW News (@dwnews) November 11, 2025
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