US EditionUS Warship Crosses Panama Canal Amid Venezuela Tensions
The USS Lake Erie is part of a U.S. operation targeting Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist groups near Venezuela's waters, amid heightened regional military activity.
- On Friday, the U.S. guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie transited the Panama Canal into the Caribbean, expanding the U.S. military presence near Venezuela; the 567-foot ship displaces 9,800 tons and is based in San Diego, California.
- The Trump administration designated eight drug trafficking groups as terrorists in February, and President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to use military force earlier this month; Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, `It allows us to now target what they're operating and to use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever... to target these groups if we have an opportunity to do it`.
- The U.S. presence in the Southern Caribbean includes several warships and more than 4,500 personnel, comprising three destroyers, two landing dock ships, an amphibious assault ship, a cruiser, and a littoral combat ship.
- Caracas announced on Monday the deployment of 15,000 security forces to the Colombian border, while Washington doubled the bounty on Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, to $50 million and Maduro condemned the move, appealing to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
- The USS Lake Erie will continue Caribbean operations, and analysts and regional observers say the U.S. naval presence, including a nuclear-powered submarine, signals a broader show of force near Venezuela.
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Navy warships amass near Venezuela
The guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie is en route to the southern Caribbean near Venezuela, a Navy official confirmed to Task & Purpose on Saturday. It is the latest in several Navy ships deployed to the region this month in a buildup of American forces. The USS Lake Erie, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, was spotted passing through the Panama Canal by reporters from Agence France-Presse on Friday night, heading to the Caribbean. …
The American missile cruiser, USS Lake Erie, entered the Panama Canal in the evening of Friday. He then made an eight-hour crossing to travel 80 km.
The launcher ship 'USS Lake Erie' has crossed the Panama Canal in recent hours, adding to the U.S. military contingent deployed in the Caribbean to pressure Venezuela, formally to fight the so-called Cartel of the Suns, led according to Washington by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The website Cruising Earth, a portal dedicated to recording information of ships in real time through the global tracking system AIS, has revealed that the 'Lake…
The U.S. missile launcher USS Lake Erie entered the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean this Friday night, in the middle of a Washington naval deployment near the coast of Venezuela.Read more]]>
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